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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
      3.0
      Jul 10, 2011

      Stay for stability, Leave for promotions

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Company making money through cash cow virtualization platform - Stock has been growing - Company riding cloud wave, vision set by CEO - Several new products are being introduced

      Cons

      - Poor quality of management - Nepotism (VPs/GMs hire their own friends) - Good people are leaving as they are being overlooked

      2.0
      Jun 4, 2011

      Just OK..

      Staff engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Market leader... Brand new campus.. Great engineers.. Company can just grow with the market as market itself is growing for virtualization. Top management is good..(can't say the same about management in lower layers)

      Cons

      Middle management is grotesquely bad..and you'd have to be dealing with them. And hence if nothing, done on the brink of great exodus..since everyone's vested their IPO options. No clear communication flow.

      2.0
      Apr 27, 2011

      Great With Stock, OK Without

      Tools developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great culture encouraging on-the-job learning/training. New industry-leading technologies all the time provide a "coolness" factor when talking with peers. Virtualization and cloud technologies are both hot stuff right now. Top management has it right on almost all external fronts. If you have stock, it's up almost every month by leaps and bounds.

      Cons

      Poor middle management. Most of the managers and directors obtained their positions by cronyism. Little to no chance of promotion or significant wage increase unless as a result of outside educational certification or degrees, or you know someone higher up who has a special spot for you. "Great. What's next?" mentality abounds with little recognition for truly great accomplishments beyond lip service. Surveys have been conducted in the past with honest answers from employees resulting in little real change. There is a major gap in feedback from the lower ranks to the upper management. Self-preservation is rampant in the middle ranks and has worsened with rounds of layoffs in middle management.

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