Is VMware a good company to work for?

VMware has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5, based on over 12,004 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 86% of employees would recommend working at VMware to a friend and 59% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about VMware have been left by employees working as Intern , Commercial Account Manager and Technical Account Manager (TAM) .

Does VMware pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, VMware employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at VMware. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at VMware?

86% of VMware employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated VMware 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at VMware?

Member Of Technical Staff (458) , Technical Support Engineer (327) , Senior Member of Technical Staff (245) , Software Engineer (215) , Staff Engineer (205) , Business Analyst (147) , Senior Manager (136) , Account Executive (132) , Director (130) , Senior Software Engineer (128) , Manager (106) , Intern (102) , Sales (94) , Member of Technical Staff(MTS) (92) , Account Manager (87)

What are the pros of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 998 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 935 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 763 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 422 reviews)); "Work culture is good..you will learn lot of things here if you put your own effort" ((in 383 reviews))

What are the cons of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"I had a very Bad manager" ((in 245 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 146 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Middle management is incompetent, and multiple layers slow down or stop anything which requires an approval" ((in 58 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 47 reviews))

What are employees saying about VMware layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about VMware layoffs and their outlook for job security at VMware in 2026.

What are the top reviewed VMware locations?

Palo Alto , Atlanta , Austin , Boston , New York , Broomfield , San Francisco , San Jose , Denver , Dallas , Chicago , Washington , Reston , Los Angeles , Bellevue , Seattle , Cambridge , Raleigh , Miami , Colorado Springs , Tampa , Phoenix , Philadelphia , Charlotte , Houston , Mountain View , Salt Lake City , Minneapolis , Nashville , Sunnyvale

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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,830 total reviews)

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 10,830 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 31, 2012

Hectic, disorganized, full time wolf-cry chasing

Senior consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great products, solid foundation to build upon, lots of opportunity for changing jobs

Cons

Constant changes of direction from upper management. Can't decide between having a vision and regressing into business as usual. Anything vaguely resembling vision vanishes quickly as it trickles down the management stack.

3.0

Jul 22, 2012

It has been very topsy turvy

Senior applications developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

BrandName No real competitor Nicely palced in the technology area Lot of work

Cons

Lot of work Not much focus on career development More repetitive and less creative work No process results in lot of wastage of productive time

3.0

Jul 9, 2012

VMware is a huge software development company where it can be hard not to feel like a cog in the machine.

Senior member of technical staff

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great campus and benefits. There are a lot of really smart people here. Pay was more than adequate. There are a lot of different projects so you can move around to new things.

Cons

This is a really big group of developers and it's hard not to feel overwhelmed by the bureaucracy and complexity of the products and organizations. Be prepared to be re-organized about every 6 months. VMware has some significant growing pains and isn't always effective at using all the talent they've hired. Much of the work is re-active and not pro-active.

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