Very hard to get things done. Moving slower and slower each year. Declining product quality.
Pros
Very good pay and benefits There are still some very smart and nice people (but they are in decline) Nice campus and physical work environment
Cons
Very heavyweight and dysfunctional release management process. Very slow moving. Takes enormous engineering effort each year to put out a vSphere product release, while not moving the needle very much. Toxic politics and a fair amount of silo-ing and back-stabbing. Overall a very harsh engineering culture where different silos tear and grind at each other rather than unify and collaborate. Company pays lots of lip service to meritocracy and accountability, but what happen daily is just the opposite. Toxic and incompetent people are allowed to be around for years, wrecking havoc on the engineering organization. Product quality seems to be getting worse each year.
