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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
4.0
Dec 8, 2011
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Pros

fairly decent benefits great people fun campus well know company in high tech fabulous technology

Cons

every year executive management changes company strategy they are doing everything possible to cut cost and sacrifice great talent HR caps on salary when there are internal promotions - not unique to VMWare Too many layers of mgmt

2.0
Sep 7, 2011

A long, down-hill slide

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Stock options are now vested - Company has name recognition - Virtualization and cloud leader, for the moment - Looks good on a resume

Cons

I've worked here five years and it's been mostly downhill. Pay isn't great and has continued to fall behind other top companies, benefits are less attractive than before, and the (imported) management team is worse than the old team. Nepotism and cronyism run rampant in senior and middle management and the Peter principle is turned up to 11. Internal reorganizations occur about every six months (seriously) and what little communication there is is muddled. This is an organization where the CEO once said we need to be laser focused on our core competency of virtualization minutes before announcing the acquisition of an email company (?) and where another senior manager got up at a company meeting to announce the best quarter ever, followed by an exhortation to eat less M&Ms to reduce overhead. If it were a Dilbert strip, you'd say it was unbelievable.

2.0
Jun 23, 2011

Dog eat Dog

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Stock performance from past years strategy and technology.

Cons

Got to throw or been thrown under the bus. Only way to get ahead is at other's expense. Not about the value you provide and qaulity of work. HR is just a joke.

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