VMware Staff Blast Hire of AWS Manager Who Faced Probe
- Joshua Burgin was the subject of discrimination inquiry at AWS
- Software company tells employees ‘rigorous’ vetting took place
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VMware Inc. employees are sharply criticizing the company’s decision to hire a former Amazon Web Services executive who was subject to an internal investigation over alleged discriminatory comments.
VMware told staff on Tuesday that Joshua Burgin, a former general manager at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit, would join as a senior leader in the Palo Alto, California-based company’s developer and application platform division, known internally as DAP. He is slated to report to general manager Ajay Patel.