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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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1.0
Dec 21, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Not micro managed Benefits & time off

Cons

Seriously feels like you are on an island. Extremely difficult to get any help from your team. There are tools to get assistance but the feedback you get you just feel like another customer to your "team"...80% of the time the feedback you get is a bit "snarky" when ultimately you are just trying to learn from each case you get day to day. The majority of the people here do not know each other (makes sense being at a big company) but because of this there is no relationship with your co-workers. The best way to put it is - it just feels like you are alone in space and your left to fend for yourself as you work with customers from around the country. You will have to handle your cases with customers no matter how difficult or over your head they may be, once that case is assigned to you, it is yours to solve no matter what. Yes you have a manager but even reaching out to them in difficult situations you don't get any real helpful support, just generic responses along the lines of, you can do this I know you can, just keep up the good work you'll find the answer or did you ask so and so? Extremely difficult to get to know your co workers and build a friendship with them as everyone is just "someone over slack" and everyone is extremely busy... which again makes it very difficult to get assistance. It is really unfortunate because I was really looking forward to working here.

2.0
Aug 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good annual increment even when the company is not doing well or getting sold out

Cons

Lack of promotions, partiality and unfair treatment in career movement, partiality based on age, region, geographic location. A new college graduate gets hired with no experience at 10 lakh + per annum salary whereas 7 years experience lateral hire will get 7.5 lakh per annum. A college pass out can get 4 promotions every year starting from Associate TSE, TSE, TSE2, TSE3 for working on one SME with no knowledge on any other technology, certifications or even on the SME that they work on, they will always need support and help from seniors getting a pass based on their age. Whereas a lateral hire will stay stuck on TSE2 even when they work on 4 SMEs and support the college graduates in their work. In some cases, only NASA region employees get promoted and other regions don't. Lateral employees are undervalued and usually leave in less than 2 years. The only reason to stay will be for the money as you generally get good increments year after year even if you dont get promotion.

3.0
Jun 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great technology to learn. Learning never stops here. Some really good people to work with. Competitive compensation. Employee Benefits.

Cons

One of the worst work life balance ever experienced in the GSS( Support Domain). Which takes a toll on your health, your personal and even on your professional life. Heavy case volume. Lots of conflicting tasks. You can never ever address your daily assignments in a single working day.

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