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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,839 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 10,839 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Feb 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Young work force, generally fun environment.

Cons

This company is filled with highly unprofessional management. They play favorites and cheat the system for their favorite employees by cheating to help them meet quota. Also, there is call activity you are monitored on. There are not many smart people left in the sales department, the good ones have all left. AirWatch underpays employees, the salaries here are well under industry averages. The employees who have left have seen their salaries double at their new jobs. It doesn't take talent to succeed here, it takes you playing into the politics of this ridiculous company and having a manager help you cheat your way to quota. Do yourself a favor and don't work here.

1.0
Nov 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good base salary, lots of young people around. Opportunity to learn.

Cons

Little or no professionalism in the way management behaves and communicates. Career path very uncertain, they will contradict themselves every now and then. Salary will remain stagnant year on year, high attrition rate. Your colleagues quitting has a very damaging effect.

2.0
Nov 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You are just out of college, you get to learn new technologies. Most of the people use this as an opportunity to learn new stuff before moving on to a bigger company since this company will not match compensation, benefits, and are extremely rigid. If you are senior don't even think of joining, Awesome recruiting folks that have tried to write all the good reviews here :) One of the ex-recruiters even admitted to the fact that the management did not care or wanted them to write fake reviews regularly.

Cons

I was here 2-3 years from startup to now acquired mode. Things have gotten worst, absolutely no promotions within even if you might have worked & proved yourself. Only 2 people make decisions in R&D. They do not want to make any investment in your career ( ask them about how many people have gone to training or attended conferences etc, they tell you to attend it on your own time) Petty office politics makes the worst. All the good people in the company have left. Their attrition rate at this point is more than their growth rate. Most of the middle or senior management are sticking to their jobs since they do not want to loose their stocks/options so the quality is drastically going down. Surprisingly, office in India is treated as people who can work on bugs and small features, extremely sad and disappointing to see this kind of attitude towards an offshore development center. My peers who were not US citizens reported that they were required to pay for legal attorneys fees ($2,000 - $5,000) if they decide to apply for your work visa. They also use this as a leverage to get more work done. Product Managers and Sales try to crunch in features just because of 1 deal. Absolutely no vision in other products other than their MDM one. It's a big ballon of crap and one day it is going to burst.

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