VMware reviews

every year executive management changes company strategy they are doing everything possible to cut cost and sacrifice great talent HR caps on salary when there are internal promotions - not unique to VMWare Too many layers of mgmt

I've worked here five years and it's been mostly downhill. Pay isn't great and has continued to fall behind other top companies, benefits are less attractive than before, and the (imported) management team is worse than the old team. Nepotism and cronyism run rampant in senior and middle management and the Peter principle is turned up to 11. Internal reorganizations occur about every six months (seriously) and what little communication there is is muddled. This is an organization where the CEO once said we need to be laser focused on our core competency of virtualization minutes before announcing the acquisition of an email company (?) and where another senior manager got up at a company meeting to announce the best quarter ever, followed by an exhortation to eat less M&Ms to reduce overhead. If it were a Dilbert strip, you'd say it was unbelievable.