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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(1,408 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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3.0
Dec 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

culture is good, salary competitive, Management good.

Cons

worried about potential acquisition coming soon

4.0
Dec 13, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

• Positive and great management that cares about employees mostly. • Good compensation and culture and values can be aligned for long-term. • You will work with pretty innovative technologies on certain teams. • You can have say in technologies and architecture of new things, unless you are the new guy. • If you are the new guy, everything goes through 2-3 other seniors and your contribution gets diluted like clear water. It's almost not worth actually asking for things to change or trying to be innovative. • Overall it was a stable and good company 2019-2021. Not sure how the Broadcomm acquisition and culture will change that. Hope for the best!

Cons

• Some teams can be stressful to meet deadlines. Deadlines are sometimes made up and do not concern the actual business. Kind of feels like carrot and stick mentality. • Some senior engineers/principal/staff that have stayed here for longer than 5-7 years are growing roots like house plants and are hard to move (innovate). • Senior engineer feels like you are junior here because management gives our Staff/Principal roles to their home boys for writing blog posts. • You do not get promoted here for writing good code or performance. It's more about how you brown-nose to the managers and if you are on-board with their kamikadze plans. • You will be married to the technical debt created by some guy who has left 2 years ago and is having fun architecting new things somewhere else (being paid more and working on brand new technologies).

5.0
Dec 9, 2022

Great company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Strong executive leadership, great work-life balance, competitive pay and generous leave policies

Cons

Acquired by Broadcom, which does not have the same employee values as VMW

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