Great past, stable present, questionable future
Pros
* Salary and benefits in the high percentile of the valley. * Very flexible work hours and work from home policy. Work hard, but go home at 5pm. * Can choose between PC & Mac (over 60% Mac). Also very flexible on extra hardware (large monitors, docking, desktops ted.). * people are very caring for one another.
Cons
* Parking is always challenging, even with the new parking area. * Very slow promotion process, easier to get promoted by leaving. also very minimal pay increase year over year - 3-5%. * Instead of being driven by customer needs, Market disruption or senior management, VMware is an engineering led company, and its direction is set by the engineers. this is great for short term delivery, but hurts the company's ability to compete and makes it play catch up. * Company long term direction is unclear. it seems VMware like Microsoft has missed the SaaS and Public cloud revolution and is heavily dependent on legacy data center sales. * Same as Microsoft, VMware has strong brand in enterprise IT with high prces, making it the less popular choice for openstack and AWS/Google/ public cloud users. * Lots of process to deal with. * Long delivery cycles making ir harder to impact the market. * Decision making process is broken. lots of political compromises.
