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      4.4

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (10,832 total reviews)
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      Raghu Raghuram

      78% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      VMware has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,832 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The VMware employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      11K reviews
      2.0
      Mar 7, 2014

      A Mixed Bag

      Senior engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - The technology is interesting and great for your résumé - Smart people who are driven - Compensation is competitive and benefits are good

      Cons

      - Very political - High turnover (especially in the first year of employment) - Many layoffs that are disguised as re-orgs or performance management - Very long hours are the norm - Terrible management since good managers are not valued - Confrontational and disrespectful behavior are tolerated

      2.0
      Dec 24, 2013

      Great past, stable present, questionable future

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      * Salary and benefits in the high percentile of the valley. * Very flexible work hours and work from home policy. Work hard, but go home at 5pm. * Can choose between PC & Mac (over 60% Mac). Also very flexible on extra hardware (large monitors, docking, desktops ted.). * people are very caring for one another.

      Cons

      * Parking is always challenging, even with the new parking area. * Very slow promotion process, easier to get promoted by leaving. also very minimal pay increase year over year - 3-5%. * Instead of being driven by customer needs, Market disruption or senior management, VMware is an engineering led company, and its direction is set by the engineers. this is great for short term delivery, but hurts the company's ability to compete and makes it play catch up. * Company long term direction is unclear. it seems VMware like Microsoft has missed the SaaS and Public cloud revolution and is heavily dependent on legacy data center sales. * Same as Microsoft, VMware has strong brand in enterprise IT with high prces, making it the less popular choice for openstack and AWS/Google/ public cloud users. * Lots of process to deal with. * Long delivery cycles making ir harder to impact the market. * Decision making process is broken. lots of political compromises.

      2.0
      Nov 3, 2013

      Lots of problems at the management level

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation, interesting technology. Smart people at the execution level

      Cons

      1. Lack of executive leadership 2. HR department are free floaters that don't do anything 3. No work-life balance 4. Agreed, promotions are based on who you know and not what you do or how well you do it. 5. Executive management sit on a kings chair and don't really care if things are going well or not, and they don't want to hear anything. 6. Incompetent exec leadership

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