Broadcom Inc., which has been in the process of acquiring enterprise software giant VMware Inc. for 18 months, will lay off at least 401 VMware employees — 184 in Broomfield, Colo. and 217 in Atlanta — less than one week after it completed the $69 billion merger on Nov. 22.
This is merely the first wave of employees to be let go. A Broadcom representative told The New Stack that he was unaware of the total number of layoffs that would result from the merger. Broadcom enlisted 21,000…