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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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11K reviews
3.0
Jul 24, 2019

Good place to work, bad place for modern marketing careers

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work life balance and pay

Cons

Lots of hierarchical issues, the company is not set up to help new companies from acquisitions and struggles with modern marketing. Each BU seems to have to create ad hoc CRM tools and lead scoring models and corporate remains confused on how best to help. Additionally, when issues are pointed out people often take it personally instead of genuinely trying to understand the issue and resolve it.

5.0
Apr 1, 2019

Great company

Recommend
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Pros

It is a great software company to work for and build your career. Some areas not good but there are a lot of good and upcoming areas or the really old areas that made VMware what it is.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy and politics has crept into the organization at director and VP levels.

2.0
Feb 18, 2019

Difficult place to work, with excellent pay and benefits.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are many excellent workers here, with great attitudes. VMware is consistently on the leading edge of technology, and is always improving its products and has rightly earned the position of being the de facto standard in IT infrastructure virtualization. Pay and benefits are top notch.

Cons

The rate of organizational change is overwhelming. I'm on my fifth boss in less than three years. The one who hired me was simply excellent, and was one of the best bosses I ever had. Sadly, the last three were among the bottom 10% of all my bosses. My current boss does not respond to phone calls or emails, and no one is able to schedule meetings with her on a timely basis. When she does finally meet with us, she does 90% of the talking, most of which is merely a re-hash of what she knows about the situation but with no new insight or leadership provided. Essentially, she is all talk, and has developed a reputation among other executives as being uncooperative and just doing things on her own. Finally, there is too much internal competition and politics where there should be teamwork and cooperation. People view it as a badge of honor if they do someone else's job, causing total chaos. There are routine "land grabs" by various directors and VPs, and of course, from people at Dell who seem to have nothing better to do. Sadly, this seems to be the norm at VMware.

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