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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,838 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 10,838 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 28, 2017

Bad management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

VMware has a relatively high base salary plus some other perks, but over the years the RSU is shrinking to almost nothing.

Cons

Bad management level, many managers don't even understand the project his group is doing. Most of the time, they just attend meetings, inquire engineers about some very basic concepts, pass messages and push people to fix bugs, meet deadlines and ask for more resources, that is it. No product vision, don't know how to allocate people and resources to get the job done. They only care about their promotions or keep the job, not the engineers. In VMware, if one is not technical, doesn't know programming, doesn't know how to manage people, but knows how to play politics. He must be a manager.

2.0
Oct 17, 2015
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Pros

I learned a lot about working through stressful situations and ended up teaching myself a lot about new technologies in order to assist customers. Now that VMware has acquired AirWatch, employees have access to VMware training materials and benefits.

Cons

The management team gets no management training and therefore acts unprofessionally. In the entry level software consultant position, which is actually just technical support (They don't tell you this until after you come for your first day of work.), the team leads micro-manage everything you do down to the words you use in emails. The hours are long, 9 1/2 a day, 5 days a week, and many times we have to work late or through lunch. All decisions are made behind closed doors, and the employees affected by those decisions don't know a change is made until the day it happens. People are randomly chosen to move to different positions in the company with no formal interview process, so career advancement or lateral career moves are often done willy nilly and new positions seem to go to friends of management or employees less qualified than others. Employees don't get enough training on the product before they have to support it with customers and have to figure it out on the fly while on the phone. You see people running around with the customer on mute begging their coworkers to help them troubleshoot an issue they've never worked on before. The documentation for the product is terrible and unhelpful in figuring out what's wrong. This is stressful for the employees and totally ridiculous!

1.0
Oct 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Learning and lots of people to guide you

Cons

My whole team including me were laid off without any prior intimation. Some folks had just joined a few months back and they were also laid off. The reason given was that it is a management reason. Why would they need to hire if they need to lay us off? The company does not care about its employees. No internal transfer or other opportunities were provided.

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