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?

"The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 990 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 946 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 768 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 428 reviews)); "Work culture is good..you will learn lot of things here if you put your own effort" ((in 382 reviews))

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

"I had a very Bad manager" ((in 247 reviews)); "Frequent Layoffs twice in a year" ((in 143 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Mediocre middle management." ((in 64 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 47 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

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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

5.0

Sep 23, 2013

Great company, great benefits. In period of stagnation

Senior quality engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Brilliant Engineers Opportunities to learn - tons of resourceful people you can learn from Benefits - great health plans, great 401k options, and great perks, MSDN accts for each engineer, Safari Books account for each engineer

Cons

- Politics and senselessness rampant throughout engineering leadership - engineers cannot regularly work from home. - New executive team is more focused on stock price than innovation - Segmentation of products - product teams are too silo'd from eachother. - Currently, in the midst of an exodus of great talent from Steve Harrod, Bogamil, as well as middle management. The smartest leaders are leaving...but it doesn't stop there. VMware is losing the most talented engineers to start-ups and other corperations (IMO) because innovation has dried up. Engineers are tired of integrating software and want to get back to building fresh ideas.

4.0

Sep 15, 2013

A good company

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

A core product (vSphere) is solid

Cons

A lot of (unnecessary) management layer

4.0

Sep 12, 2013

It's been a wonderful ride but the transition to mature company has naturally left me nostalgic

Staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of smart people busy tackling lots of significant problems. It's gratifying to work on a product that customers really love. On the benefit side, great health coverage, a beautiful campus and best cafe food ever.

Cons

When I first joined the company was much smaller and everyone was brilliant but the last 3 years the brain drain has been frightening.

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