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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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4.0
Oct 8, 2010

innovation focused company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Diane Greene set up one of the greatest software companies in history and Paul Maritz extended very well by laying out a very nice vision.

Cons

From a company valuing people to a company valuing spreadsheet metrics a bit more. Organization structure is a lot more "scalable". Nothing wrong with any of the above especially considering vmware is a publicly traded company after all.

3.0
Oct 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Palo Alto office is a dream. Beautiful, full of trees. Great cafeteria and gym. Fantastic perks such as on-site dental, dry-cleaning, and gym. The company has a great future and super vision. Most people are very willing to work together for the common good

Cons

Value of the individual contributor is limited. Layoffs show the lack of value in accumulated knowledge of employees. There is no coordinated effort to help employees advance. No system of any kind for training and `advancement. Some areas of the company are very political.

3.0
Oct 4, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Free snacks, drinks, cereal, beer bashes, etc. - Work-life balance, relaxed environment - Great campus and cafeteria - Smart people - Awesome and groundbreaking technology

Cons

- Incompetent upper management - Growing pains - Weak leadership - Office politics/gossip/rumors - Sometimes communication between groups are bad - Starting to get a bit crowded - Very questionable hiring practices. Many teams has been interviewing many talented candidates for a while and have not hired a single candidate. It seems most teams have a bias on hiring only Masters students only, which is hypocritical because the positions list Bachelors degrees as well. Most notoriously, the (UX) User Experience team.

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