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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

VMware has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,833 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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1.0
Nov 7, 2019

Hit or miss

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice company grounds Cutting edge tech

Cons

Depends on the team you join. Some managers dedicate their life to the company and do not understand there is a life outside work. There is limited wfh flexibility, numerous social dinners, and lack of opportunity to progress. Long hours, and not giving enough days off during down time to offset the busy times. Heavy Nepotism. Promoting managers without grooming them. "Unlimited PTO" per say, but the truth is the company is robbing your hours. Some personal is highly toxic but their are surrounded by their minions.

2.0
Apr 29, 2019
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Pros

Excellent growth . Excellent product portfolio. Excellent CEO. Pat Gelsinger the CEO has done an awesome job of taking over the reigns of the company a few years ago and completely turning it around. The stock price has more than quadrupled under his leadership. He has acquired many startups and successfully integrated them into the VMWare product portfolio and eco system. Hats off to him for creating wealth for the employees, for the owners (EMC and now DELL) and for the investors. One of the finest CEO in the Silicon Valley.

Cons

Along with these product acquisitions, this company has also acquired managers and middle management who have no idea of what management is. There is no one culture at VMWare. There are as many cultures as the number of startups acquired and the managers of these startups are free to treat their teams as they want. HR is very weak in this company and they are not for you. They are for the managers ... dont rely on them. I had a short stint at one of these acquired startups called Velocloud. Incompetent management, very high attrition rate. Lot of senior engineers leaving the group. Those who stick around are there to vest their stocks. The founders thinks of themselves to be semi god who will punish you if you decide to leave their kingdom. Their technology stack will teach you nothing. Accept their offer if you cannot find a job somewhere else. Most of these startup managers lack sympathy and empathy and will not hesitate to show you their powers and make you feel that you are a POS compared to them. Dont be fooled by the "100 Best Companies to Work" or "Top paying company" marketing or the campus. It is actually an average paying and a very weak middle management company. Shop around, I am confident you will get a much better offer and a lot better culture, work environment and work life balance. I know people who were offered twice the package they were making at VMWare.

4.0
Jul 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great Company to work. You can work with experts in vritualization and cloud. Great environment.

Cons

Some of the teams have only Indians and Chines. Culture of such teams is bad. They have feudal mindset and harass people who don;t have similar mindset. They even harass fellow countrymen from the same team.

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