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86% would recommend to a friend

(1,407 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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4.0
Dec 2, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* Compensation & benefits are excellent * The tech you get to work on is interesting, and is always growing/changing (both from innovation and frequent acquisitions of smaller companies) * People are mostly very smart

Cons

* There are annual layoffs, usually in January - seen a lot of people with tons of product knowledge get axed * Related to this, there seem to be constant reorgs - mostly this affects the people above you, but it can be difficult to keep track of what groups/divisions within the company you belong to * The frequent acquisitions, which have some positive effects (see above) also mean that there are constantly new teams of people that need to be integrated, and that can lead to more confusion and disorganization

4.0
Nov 30, 2020

VMware Carbon Black

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility of work, good culture, fun work environment

Cons

poor pay, small territory for sales, competitive market

3.0
Nov 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Large company with many resources. Nice campus. Some cutting edge technology. Compensation is above average.

Cons

Career pathing is challenging. Large software base means lots of people working to maintain it and less opportunities to work on new things. Large public cloud providers make VMware SDDC software less relevant. Inconsistently trained managers. Tends to be hierarchical. Not much progress on advancing underrepresented groups. Hours can be long and late. Stock has been moving sideways over the past two years.

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