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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,832 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 10,832 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
2.0
Feb 1, 2010

disappointing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The perception of working, and having worked for VMware is good for your resume. They have built a nice campus in Palo Alto.

Cons

They grew to fast, and hired too many people with incorrect criteria for the individual's role, and the individual's success. There is a lot of political infighting that has not worked itself out yet, and is a distraction, or specific impediment to accomplishing goals.

1.0
Nov 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Technology, innovatio, Perks, Stock Options, campus

Cons

Mid level Management is not good, Every day a new story is cooked, Employee's are never recognized, 6 CIO's got change since i joined. Every CIO brings his own people and perform very poor

2.0
Oct 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Engineers - still some of the best I've worked

Cons

Management bloat. All brought on board in the last couple of years. This used to be a place run by engineers. These days, it's run by middle management. Most of them utterly incompetent. There used to be like 2 Product Managers for each product category. Now it's more like 20 of them. All of them egotistical maniacs, more interested in getting on their soap box and telling you what their vision of the world is than in working with you. Engineering managers are no exception. They seem to care more about their own well being than of the people below them. Things like process and protocol and often held in higher regard than the product itself. Old timers will completely vest in a couple of years. You can expect some massive engineering hemorrhage then (if not sooner), if things carry on the way they are.

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