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Here's how you fix hiring... Have them demonstrate competency.

It's really easy to screen out people when you say "Hey - login to this VM and show me how to import raw data into postgres and run a report."

Or do whatever you're going to do.

My favorite story is from a particular sean who had a candidate that said they'd been using VM for 20 years, and when he went into a document the candidate hit j 200 times to go line 200.

Pretending to be a whale doesn't seem like a sound principle to me. Subs don't follow the migratory paths of whales, as far as I know. Now, we just look for whales that are out of place and send a drone out to check.

Maybe you're right though, that overwhelming the signal pattern, similar to how SDI/Star Wars was deemed moot.

How do you know this is their view? I don't have any strong opinion or evidence to argue, but I'm curious if this is conjecture or inference or actual knowledge?

5 Years ago VMWare support was, in my opinion, absolutely gutter.

Calling in for any questions was met with a support tech who was actively hostile and tried their best to find some way to disqualify our ability to get support. The first trick was always Hardware Compatibility List ("HCL") followed by interrogating us about software versions. Before I get the cries of pity about all the dumb users who waste their time by not upgrading, we probably opened support cases twice weekly - and the same verification interrogation happened.

We'd routinely find situations where the stated support for SANs wasn't what it said, etc.

I'd have said it could not get worse, but reading what Broadcom is doing, I am convinced otherwise.

Anyone using VMWare for business critical things is likely in for both a huge pocket book hit and an even larger support headache.

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