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?

"Incredible culture and great at building work" ((in 1181 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 984 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 953 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 750 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 410 reviews))

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

"There are some bad managers I have worked with" ((in 233 reviews)); "Frequent Layoffs twice in a year" ((in 139 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Mediocre middle management." ((in 65 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 47 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

(10,832 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

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

3.0

Mar 17, 2011

VMware is an "Ok" place to work

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

VMware is still dominating in the virtualizaion market, and will keep its leader position for at least 3 years. It has been growing fast and expanding its business by acquiring smaller companies. This company has potential to take more shares in the cloud computing area.

Cons

VMware is more like a traditional software company and working here is not fun or cool at all, if compared with Facebook or start-ups.

4.0

Mar 11, 2011

A good place to work if you know what you're looking for.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Leader, Technology, Money, chaos brings opportunities. Paul Maritz: He's someone you can believe in: down to earth visionary. trustworthy. He's the main reason to be in the company.

Cons

A lot of change in management culture, inability to fire incompetent people, grew quite fast. I've been here for 6 years, It was a very different place in the first 3 years, now it seems like VMWare's struggling to find it's soul.

2.0

Mar 4, 2011

Nice colleagues, extremely poor management

Member of technical staff ii

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I met many interesting people in that company and learned a lot from them. Getting an insight into virtualization and using a number of technologies broadened my experience.

Cons

Pressure for getting things done in no time, poor planning, combined with the manager's inability to be sincere, direct and unpretending and to make team members actually work as a team killed my desire to be in VMware.

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