VMware reviews

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.

Upper level management scrambling to make an impression on superiors. Everyone "managing up" and trying to impress the boss. Customers and developing good software is lost in this process. HR at the low end of competence. Politics high in Palo Alto.