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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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11K reviews
4.0
Jun 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great people. Intelligent, humorous, fun to hang out with. Weekly happy hour. Great salary, great benefits. Employees encouraged to give back to community. Easygoing managers, at least mine was great. No Accrued Vacation - don't know whether to love it or hate it.

Cons

Influence of EMC is present, and starting to shape the company. VMware appears to be past the line of build/buy - instead of creating products of their own making, they are rich enough to buy whole companies. This stifles internal innovation, just like EMC does.

5.0
May 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

great compensation - smart people - flexible work options - decent benefits - fast paced - leading technology - delicious cafeteria options - nice campus - good leadership

Cons

Depending on the team there may be a lot of politics at play, that can detract and distract from the focus on achieving goals together. However, most groups have great leadership and there are some great women leaders emerging over the last 2-3 years.

4.0
Mar 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to work on some really interesting technology. The people are very bright. here is a lot of support for moving around internally from team to team to keep things interesting.

Cons

Not all departments are as good to work for as others. A lot really depends on your management chain. The HR department is constantly trying to compare itself to Google, benefits-wise. Which is a failure, because our benefits don't measure up to Google's at all.

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