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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

      Ratings by category

      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
      4.0
      Feb 19, 2013

      Dynamic company but struggles with identity and growth.

      Senior business strategist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great enthusiasm, strong culture, positive atmosphere. Strong appreciative client base. Tremendous growth opportunities in EMEA and Asia Pacific so the company still have tremendous upside.

      Cons

      Weak management, poor communication, political hierarchy tacking shape with ineffective. job defensive mindset beginning to invade Director and above psyche - reminiscent of Microsoft circa 1998-2002. Client base beginning to dig deeper in VMware value proposition, awareness of competitive offerings. Companies looking to ensure they don't become too "imbedded" and dependent on 1 particular vendor, and VMware suffering from that perception.

      4.0
      Feb 9, 2013

      Pretty Good so far...

      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - good salary and benefits, campus - pretty interesting work trying to bring something unique to the marketplace - recent reorg finally brought much needed focus and clarity on what the company wants to be

      Cons

      - some bad decisions leading to massive wasted engineering efforts - no uniform process followed across teams - slowly losing some of its shine - politics

      3.0
      Feb 5, 2013

      Good engineers, indecisive management

      Staff engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - culture of excellence, quality - a lot of smart people - genuine commitment to innovation

      Cons

      - executives lack ability Inability to make tough decision; they allow competing projects to go on too long undermining eachother leading to a no-win situations. - hyper-visor / platform team have too much say / power: VMware claim they want to move "up the stack" into management software and new domains but efforts have been obstructed by senior, core teams who only have experience building operating systems and command line tools. - promises of technical career progression don't seem too promising: Sr Staff and above seem dominated by old-timers and acquirees; little potential for organic promotion - recent "re-focussing" and spinning-off of the "Pivotal Initiative" seems to be an admission the company is incapable of moving into new areas which is disheartening.

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