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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 9, 2011
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Pros

Interesting technologies Nice office and environment

Cons

Salary used to be good but the company does not provide share options anymore. The salary has also been cut in some positions lately. A lot of management issues: - The job presented during the interview is far away from the reality - This is partly due to constant reorganizations of the teams and jobs - No training in place except of a computer based training, do not expect any help from colleagues and even less from managers. Most of them don’t have a clue. - Some sales managers have very little knowledge of the company structure. - No team spirit (1 team meeting in the last 6 months) - Employees are totally out of the decision making process. Improvement suggestions are not welcomed. - No employee empowerment, no personal development path - In order to grow up the ladder, you need to know the right person; unfortunately the intelligence or hard working behaviours are no success factor there. - Incredible turnover (e.g.: 75% of a middle-sized team resigned in not even 1 year) - Despite this high turnover, no corrective action is taken so employees are just trying to cope on a daily basis but their overall career is negatively affected - No exit interview. Does that mean that the company does not want to improve itself? - In overall the management is done only by controlling (metrics, KPI monitoring and call control) and threatening. No long term strategy. No work flexibility, 2 weeks of imposed holiday

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

5.0
Dec 8, 2011
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Pros

Work life balance is excellent. When my day is over no one expects me to answer a phone call or reply to an email. VMware GSS hires mainly by cultureand as such we have a great team of people to work with. Compensation is fair and the benefits are great.

Cons

I work from 10 - 7 PM - would like more classic hours. It has not always been clear regarding what needs to be done to move up the career ladder here. We are busy!

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