VMware reviews

I saw the company grow from a start-up through the acquisition by VMWare. After 2 years, I had to leave or risk my psychological health. While there are a great number of "cons" (which I will list below) they all stem from the philosophy that intimidation, condescension and verbal abuse are the foundation of a Leadership strategy. AirWatch has some of the brightest minds in Atlanta working under their logo, however the employees are consistently told that their contributions are irrelevant to the business and leadership. The attitude that any employee, regardless of historical performance, could be easily replaced by a trained circus animal, tomorrow...stems from the top. Middle management tries to shield their employees from this hostility when possible, but if they want to keep their jobs the message must be delivered regularly. Cons - 1. No work life balance. 2. Financial compensation well below industry standard 3. The benefit package (PTO, insurance, 401k) is a bad joke 4. Increased responsibility is "awarded" but never accompanied by a base pay raise. 5. Travel is required over weekends and holidays 6. Business changes are instituted without necessary consideration of consequences 7. Unprofessional management communication is common (yelling, condescension, dismissal of employees needs/concerns) 8. The "Open office" concept is taken to the extreme. 9. VERY few women in leadership positions

Oh boy where to begin: 1. Company has no vision. Management does not know what the heck they are doing. They keep changing priorities. Managers on top of managers on top of managers who dont know or do anything 2. They cut 401k, no raises this year, no promotion, bonus delayed, all this was done so they dont have to fire ppl. and guess what they fired a bunch of people. two layoff cycles this year already. not to mention they went ahead and acquired a bunch of startups . Pat, Dell and execs getting paid bigly while commoners suffer 3. DNI : oh boy, another disaster. it's a free for all. doesnt matter if you can solve basic algorithm question you are hired if you are DNI. doesnt matter that you dont know basics of time complexity of system design, if you have a certain color of skin. 4. no growth personally/technically. stock going nowhere. no concrete vision for growth. you will hear "oh but work life balance " that is BS. you will come here thinking you will coast and soon you will become dead weight. unhireable outside. you will think this is a steady company, you do whats required and you are safe, wrong, one day they will just fire you out of the blue cz "priorities changed" , at least if you work in amazon, apple etc stock goes up and you get rewarded. vmware is a deadbeat, it's done, over.