Broadcom swings the axe at VMware with over 2,800 cut already
There are likely to be plenty more layoffs
Executives are also scrambling for the exit ramp at the company too
It’s going to be a blue Christmas for many of cloud architects laid off by VMware after the closure of Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of the cloud software company.
Broadcom has cut over 2,800 jobs in the U.S. alone so far. VMware has over 38,000 employees worldwide.
The Bay Area Chronicle reported this week that over 1,200 people were let go from VMware’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Silverlinings has seen WARN notices come in related to VMWare terminations, from Colorado to Washington State.
“As you would have seen many posts, lot of us at VMware were affected with recent layoff after the Broadcom acquisition,” software engineer Ravi Chandran wrote on LinkedIn, as did many other former VMware employees
There are also reports of job cutting overseas, such as in Ireland, and there are many more cuts expected over time.
These disclosures follow Broadcom’s closing of its $61 billion acquisition of VMware recently, which also saw Broadcom take on $8 billion worth of VMware’s debt. With the closure of the deal, VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram stepped down, and Broadcom split the VMware business into four parts.
Sumit Dhawan, president at VMware has taken on a new role as CEO of security vendor Proofpoint.
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