VMware reviews

- Management has, at times, had a micromanagement problem. It seems that they are afraid to trust their employees make good decisions. I will grant that this micromanagement may have been necessary at one point with a large amount of young and inexperienced employees, but now several experienced managers have been brought in and should be trusted in their decision making - I found the open floor plan to be more distracting than helpful. It was often to difficult to work on tasks that required concentration due to constant distractions and interruptions. - Policies are constantly changing. This is due to the large growth and acquistion that AirWatch has recently gone through, but it makes it very difficult to complete tasks when processes and policies change every two weeks - Unrealistic timelines are often given to customers without first consulting with product teams on prior commitments and other timelines. This results in low quality work or "band-aid" fixes that will just have to be reworked later. This is changing with the VMWare acquisition as VMWare is putting a strong focus on quality

Horrible management , nothing is for certain, no one can make up their mind about best practices so it is constantly changing. managers are too busy in meetings and customer issues to actually manage. Most managers came into their position by luck as the company grew so rapidly and are not qualified to lead (i.e no people/management skills) training. The onboarding is sales oriented, and after that you are basically thrown in the fire(tradefloor) and moved around to where they need a body. Once you are hired you are treated as a warm body, not an employee with skills and assets. They don't utilize employees' knowledge and experience effectively and QA is a flat organization, where 90% of people are only hired to do manual mobile app test, AKA press buttons on a phone. Most QAs are not gaining any useful technical skills through this experience. Workload is insane and unrealistic. No work life balance. There is always some fire/customer issue that needs attention now. it is a joke to call R&D agile. A lot of un-professionalism, where people talk crap about/to each other, It is the result of giving a bunch of kids fancy titles and power. A lot of room for slacking, 10% of the QAs carry the wight of the department while the others come in and go as they please and goof around. No one is really tracked. There is no repercussions for un-professionalism and not doing your job.