Does VMware pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, VMware employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at VMware. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at VMware?

86% of VMware employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated VMware 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at VMware?

Member Of Technical Staff (458) , Technical Support Engineer (327) , Senior Member of Technical Staff (245) , Software Engineer (215) , Staff Engineer (205) , Business Analyst (147) , Senior Manager (136) , Account Executive (132) , Director (130) , Senior Software Engineer (128) , Manager (106) , Intern (102) , Sales (94) , Member of Technical Staff(MTS) (92) , Account Manager (88)

What are the pros of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"Incredible culture and great at building work" ((in 1147 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 986 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 919 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 744 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 431 reviews))

What are the cons of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"This alone tells you how bad management is and how stressful it is to work for this company." ((in 417 reviews)); "There are some bad managers I have worked with" ((in 243 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 145 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Mediocre middle management." ((in 61 reviews))

What are employees saying about VMware layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about VMware layoffs and their outlook for job security at VMware in 2026.

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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,832 total reviews)

Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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4.5

Culture & values

4.5

Diversity & inclusion

4.4

Compensation and benefits

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.1

Career opportunities

3.8

Senior management

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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews

3.0

Mar 31, 2020

good pay, lots of politics

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Nice pay, hours, interesting projects

Cons

Lots of politics, tribalism, appearances, fake achievements and projects, no career if you are not personally close to the managers, engineering culture is in skydive

3.0

Mar 15, 2020

Good pay and benefits; bad management

Staff technical program manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, benefits, beautiful main campus, great work-life balance

Cons

very political, nepotism, yearly layoffs, hard to change jobs within the company, rigid job titles, managers who bully people

3.0

Feb 21, 2020

High pay does not compensate for stress

Technical support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits and pay are better than most. People are friendly and very intelligent. The free food and snacks are great along with catered meals weekly.

Cons

You can't be expected to successfully manage 50 cases when often times 1 case alone will take several hours and sometimes days. There was a lot of training, some of the instructors were worthless.

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