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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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews
1.0
Nov 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

great coworkers/friends Fun parties Casual wear

Cons

Horrible management , nothing is for certain, no one can make up their mind about best practices so it is constantly changing. managers are too busy in meetings and customer issues to actually manage. Most managers came into their position by luck as the company grew so rapidly and are not qualified to lead (i.e no people/management skills) training. The onboarding is sales oriented, and after that you are basically thrown in the fire(tradefloor) and moved around to where they need a body. Once you are hired you are treated as a warm body, not an employee with skills and assets. They don't utilize employees' knowledge and experience effectively and QA is a flat organization, where 90% of people are only hired to do manual mobile app test, AKA press buttons on a phone. Most QAs are not gaining any useful technical skills through this experience. Workload is insane and unrealistic. No work life balance. There is always some fire/customer issue that needs attention now. it is a joke to call R&D agile. A lot of un-professionalism, where people talk crap about/to each other, It is the result of giving a bunch of kids fancy titles and power. A lot of room for slacking, 10% of the QAs carry the wight of the department while the others come in and go as they please and goof around. No one is really tracked. There is no repercussions for un-professionalism and not doing your job.

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VMware Response
11y
Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We have been experiencing rapid growth over the last 3 years. This type of growth enables us to add more roles and responsibilities to high performing employees. We have a good mix of Jr and Sr level managers that we will continue to invest in through learning and development programs.
4.0
Oct 23, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company values,Office culture,good salary,work life balance,personal growth

Cons

I found promotion growth rate is low even though you have done a extra ordinary job. Salary hike is also low even though you have got top most rating.

3.0
Oct 14, 2014

Regular employee overview

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good office facilities, cafe and beverages, snacks - these are constantly the same so at one point you no longer like them. The opportunity to work with smart engineers (emphasize on engineers, because not all managers are like that) using latest technologies.

Cons

There are few hypocrite managers which believe they can "influence" all other with their incorrect behavior. The opportunities for promotion are not equal to all employees - there are few employees who are regularly promoted - let's say every 2 years without any strong justification for that. At the same time people with strong technical contribution are intentionally stuck on low levels and eventually smart engineers either leave the company or are managed by inadequate "fast-promoted" managers which actually devalues the process. The situation in Bulgarian office unfortunately is as in the whole Bulgaria -not transparent, corrupted, "friends-only" fake promotions.

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