VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley

Re:VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley by streetcat1 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:04AM (#24449756)

This is not true for complex software. The complexity of modern infra systems (like vmware vm) is so high, that there are very few people (regarding of the location) capable of understanding and creating such software on time and in budget.

I will be surprised if the salary cut includes good engineers.

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Re:VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley by ksmith14 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:40PM (#24456881)

I worked for VMware from 2007-2014 on things other than the core virtualization products.

I think you’re overestimating the situation. There is a group that did have a fair number of CS PhDs to develop and maintain the core piece — the virtual machine monitor (VMM) but then there’s a large number of plain old everyday SWEs developing the bulk of vSphere and the desktop virtualization products.

I would expect VMW’s policy to apply to just about everyone. A few old timers that have reached the principal engineer or fellow levels might be able to avoid it but that’s a few dozen out of 20,000+

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Re:VMware Cuts Pay for Remote Workers Fleeing Silicon Valley by kec on Saturday September 12, 2020 @06:44PM (#24456538)

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Even if only 0.001% are capable of working on VMWare, that's still nearly 100,000 people.

High salary Silicon Valley engineers are not nearly as special or unique as some think they are.

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