VMware reviews

Grown very fast, and sometimes inefficient. The operational pieces are constantly playing catch up with the growth in terms of HR, IT and operations. Still, they are constantly looking for ways to improve and catch up, so it's not as much of a problem as if they were not dealing with it. We are catching up with ourselves on this, and VMware is very proactive about fixing issues. Sometimes VMW over hires for positions and then people feel like they aren't growing as quickly as they would in other places. The maternity/paternity/disability leave policies are very light...surprising for a company who values its people so much.

Although virtualization is an interesting and exciting field; some of the periphery work can be burdensome. Because the stock is volatile; recent hires will become very wealthy before other employees who have stock options that are severely underwater. Some employees underestimate the tangible advantages of competitors' products; like Parallels and Microsoft HyperV. Occasionally, perks are changed without employee involvement; to the chargin of those who chose VMware for a specific perk. A weakness is that VMware's products built by Unix people are difficult for Windows/Mac-centric users; and products built by Windows people are difficult for Unix/Mac-centric users. The cubicle areas can be noisy.