Pros
Salaries are on par with others in the industry, and the chance to work in a very hot area of IT is enjoyable. It's a very dynamic job, and people are mostly pleased to see a VMware face in their office.
Cons
Where to begin? The company still seems to have this sense of entitlement: They expect their employees are so thrilled to work for VMware that they will accept any manner of ill treatment and still feel pleased to work. There is absolutely *zero* chance for promotion or any sort of career path if you do not work at head office. If you do work in Palo Alto, you can easily find yourself promoted very rapidly to a position of complete incompetence, while more knowledgeable and better suited candidates who have the ill luck to not be based in Palo Alto tend to languish. The entire company seems to be shifting very rapidly towards a standard model of engineering common to large software companies: That is to say the emphasis is on new features, new products, new marketing, and a complete disregard for QA, bug fixes, support organizations and product stability. So, couple decreasingly functional products with a geography-based system of promotion and very rapidly VMware has started sliding down a slope toward mediocrity.
