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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

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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4.0
Mar 25, 2023
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Pros

Tons of very intelligent people that are eager to share knowledge.

Cons

After a certain point, you do have to "play the game" to get ahead much like any big company. There are a lot of senior leaders that clearly got their role due to relationships they have with other leaders instead of their qualifications.

3.0
Feb 4, 2023

Layoffs without decent severance

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Pros

EPIC2 Values / Corporate Culture use to be one of the best things about VMware along with Pat G. I have seen repeatable offenses against EPIC2 values internally where there is no empathy and compassion for the employees in how they are treated or let go from the company...very harsh

Cons

They are quietly letting go one by one to avoid a mass panic. This is not a happy , positive place to work anymore across business units...there are so many layers of uncertainty where mgmt tries to put people at ease with words, but then I see the actions not being aligned with their words...so being out of integrity goes against EPIC2 100%.

1.0
Dec 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Not micro managed Benefits & time off

Cons

Seriously feels like you are on an island. Extremely difficult to get any help from your team. There are tools to get assistance but the feedback you get you just feel like another customer to your "team"...80% of the time the feedback you get is a bit "snarky" when ultimately you are just trying to learn from each case you get day to day. The majority of the people here do not know each other (makes sense being at a big company) but because of this there is no relationship with your co-workers. The best way to put it is - it just feels like you are alone in space and your left to fend for yourself as you work with customers from around the country. You will have to handle your cases with customers no matter how difficult or over your head they may be, once that case is assigned to you, it is yours to solve no matter what. Yes you have a manager but even reaching out to them in difficult situations you don't get any real helpful support, just generic responses along the lines of, you can do this I know you can, just keep up the good work you'll find the answer or did you ask so and so? Extremely difficult to get to know your co workers and build a friendship with them as everyone is just "someone over slack" and everyone is extremely busy... which again makes it very difficult to get assistance. It is really unfortunate because I was really looking forward to working here.

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