I know a surprising number of people who hope that Broadcom will be better managed than VMware and that it’ll be easier to get good work done there. Mostly folks who came into VMware through acquisitions and then had layers and layers of VMware management piled on top of them.
BRCM comp is about 50% stock, and the stock has been a runaway hit in the last few years. So a lot of people.
They also gave crazy 4 years of RSU grants in one hit right before COVID.
There are golden handcuffs called RSUs, shares that are distributed to employees over a longer period of time. The longer you stay, the more shares you get ;-)