VMware reviews

Recent years, despite financial success/growth, have been challenging at VMW. There are various reasons. To me there are three top level factors in the company's decline from a top place to work: (1) "Stock advocates" putting pressure on EMC to sell of VMW to "unlock" share holder value. (2) Aggressive and (seeming) directionless drive to develop the next growth technology. (3) Infiltration of "Good Old Boy" management. The affects of each of factors are subtle and significant by themselves, but very impactful together. (1) Forces cost control and places a premium on a "need to move quickly" to hold off the advocates. This drives poor planing, staffing (no hiring in certain places, forced multi time zone teams), and a shotgun approach to product development, leading to poor execution. This puts tremendous pressure on the employees, making it a less desirable place to work, proven by high sr mgmt and engineering turn over in the last year. Replacement mgmt comes brings outside cultures, which can be good depending on where it comes from, but turned out bad for VMW (good old boys and empire builders that were laid off from "successful companies").

- Many new employees. Seems like the average is less than 2 years. That said everyone seems to be highly experienced in the professional services, and account teams. - Takes time to build relationships internally, and find which resources you require. - Good and bad; the product suites are becoming more complicated and it can be challenging to stay up to speed on training on them. - Interview process can be grueling and lacking in follow up communication. Many phone interviews which are sometimes redundant in the questions asked.