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 977 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 947 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 745 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 402 reviews)); "Good salaries even if there is a lot of difference in the same role: the suggestions is to negotiate very well at the beginning!" ((in 387 reviews))

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

"There are some bad managers I have worked with" ((in 241 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 140 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Mediocre middle management." ((in 60 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 49 reviews))

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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

(10,833 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

VMware has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,833 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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4.0

Jun 17, 2012

A technology company

Analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

A technology company Pays well Good career and academic growth as company pays you to keep you updated Work culture is nice infrastructure is superb and one of the best in the world has a mixed infrastructure of LINUX, UNIX, MAC and Windows

Cons

has a mixed infrastructure of LINUX, UNIX, MAC and Windows which sometimes causes issues with data integration Speed of growth is sometime very unplanned as this cause unwanted confusion

4.0

Jun 14, 2012

Nice place to work

Member of technical staff

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good balance between fast-paced work like startups and stability found in big comapnies.

Cons

I haven't noticed much bad things during my tenure here.

4.0

Jun 13, 2012

I am happy to work at VMware. There are some problems and thing I dislike, but all big enterprises have them.

Member of technical staff iii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Work with very smart and motivated people. The managers are all very good at technical level. Good compensation. Smart people are valued.

Cons

As many other big enterprise companies the processes are hurting productivity of the employees. Some time the politics is too much and can be sensed at the lower ranks.

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