VMware reviews

- Absolutely no recognition. You are a "resource", here to fix bugs. - Promotion are entirely left to your manager. Ancient dinosaur engineers are at highest ranks while they don't contribute, young talents do all the work and remain very low for years. - Lots of talking, no acting. Internal polls show lots of discontent but nothing ever changes... - ...besides the entire management chain which is reorganized every 6 months. Huge waste of time & money. - Nobody wants to take the lead on some tasks. Bug threads are like hot potatoes going from a person to another and nobody wants to burn its hands (who can blame them given the lack of recognition). - Some incompetent people can't help the company and to keep themselves entertained they just spend their time making your life harder. Endless reviews, extra (long) approvals, small inter-team wars. Basically everything to prevent you from having a decent time. - People leaving this sinking company at light speed.

The focus on paper education over actual ability is infuriating. It seems that everyone who makes Director or above did so simply because they have an MBA. Conference calls tend to sound like a bad game of buzz word bingo.