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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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      4.5

      Culture & values

      4.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      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
      1.0
      Mar 8, 2014

      Hostile work environment

      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None that I can think of.

      Cons

      -Hostile work environment -CPD is junk work starring at log files and dealing with H1B's esp from China. -Political and toxic workplace. -Managers that are useless but suck upper management's rears are promoted.

      3.0
      Mar 6, 2014

      One trick pony!!!

      Sales manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great working environment. Smart people. Excellent products. Admirable reputation

      Cons

      Has become a bit of a 'good old boys' club and middle management has become a breeding ground for sycophants. Upper management is comprised of many FOC's(friend of Carl's[Eschenbach]) who are were good when VMW was a start-up but who are now out of their depth . The company has lost its way a little as it has grown and this has killed off its wonderful culture.

      4.0
      Feb 27, 2014

      Great place to work as an engineer, but needs to keep focus.

      Senior staff engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      VMware has a lot of really smart people, and when I was there was willing to take a number of risks to break into new areas. They are very good about helping employees grow, and having many opportunities. Every year, they had a great internal conference called Radio, where any employee could submit papers on ideas or things they were working on. Then, a huge portion of the engineers at the company would get together for a conference where the best papers were presented and Sr. Management would talk a bit about strategy and what our customers were looking for. I've never been at a company that had an internal innovation conference as great as Radio. Really made me feel that VMware was willing to invest in their engineers and investing in staying cutting edge.

      Cons

      The main "CONs" I saw were that several of the divisions that were not the core products had problems creating a cohesive product portfolio. You can see it by looking at the large number of products VMware has. There was a bunch of effort to change that when I was there and create better suites of products, but I felt there was a lot of good work that was not getting as much leverage as it could because Team A and Team B weren't thinking about their work as being part of the same cohesive story.

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