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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by bauruine on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:55AM (#45288093)
>On July 11, 2018, Broadcom Inc. announced it would acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash.

I'm not surprised. That sounds exactly like Broadcom.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by Aeolun on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:06AM (#45288168)
You’d think they failed based on the description given earlier. But that doesn’t sound like failure to me…
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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by alephnerd on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:58AM (#45289077)
Broadcom cleaned house though - the overwhelming majority of old school CA Technologies from line level ICs to VPs and Execs were all cut.

There was a notorious incident where some ex-VPs at CA made a whole stink about being downgraded to Managers at Broadcom due to title inflation at CA and Hock Tan personally flamed them, along with CA's shenanigans around their private jet (Broadcom demanded CA to fly commercial).

Sometimes, companies with lazy and inefficient leadership and staff need to get the stick.

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