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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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1.0
Mar 1, 2011
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Pros

The center of the IT world, we are the tip of the spear.

Cons

Very little, if any, paid hands-on product training for the sales team. Most of it is flash content delivered in a browser, and you are required to watch it on your own time. Management has made the poor decision to - for the most part - turn a successful channel driven business into a direct sales model like Dell, but w/out the resources to do so successfully, mostly becuase they are becoming heavily laden w/ex dell micro management. Upper level management seems disconnected from reality when it comes to SMB, insisting that sales needs to pitch a "your cloud" message to customers that dont yet fully undstand the basics of consolidation, and the manement procuts are priced more for enterprise customers than for SMB.

3.0
Feb 24, 2011
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Pros

VMware's products is what sets them apart from competition. Their engineering team has done a tremendous job of continuing to innovate and collaborating with other tech companies. People are friendly.

Cons

Too many layer of management. Not enough recognition within the department. A lot of jobs are moving to lower cost location which is causing a lot of inefficiencies and not really saving money. Lots of cronism happening when new management arrives and replaces the entire team.

3.0
Dec 20, 2010
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Pros

Leading edge technology, for now

Cons

Marketing is not in sync with industry perception that VMware equals innovation and thought leadership. Programs are nothing new and many are old school, traditional, brick and mortar marketing programs. Paul Maritz is great, but that's where the strong leadership ends. Everyone under him is subpar.

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