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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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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11K reviews

2.0

Dec 14, 2010

Great core product. The sales force lacks A-players and the culture & leadership in the field suffers as result.

Senior systems engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Category Leader in Virtualization. Great place for an software engineer or R&D person.

Cons

Execution and culture in the field suffer due to lack of leadership.

2.0

Dec 9, 2010

Managed by fear, and retaliated against when saying no

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

VMware has great cutting edge and leading technology. It has bright and enthusiastic engineers. Great place to learn new technology. Executive level people are doing great growing the company. The technology itself is growing the company.

Cons

Directors and middle management people are not so good. They mainly manage by fear and retaliate if an employee says no. A lot of them have been promoted because of their time with the company and because they are in the club, where they feed each other.

3.0

Dec 9, 2010

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Member of technical staff

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The place has very good technology and is driven through wonderful top level leadership. It gives good benefits and compensation

Cons

There is room for improvement in terms of management essp the mid level and can do better if in case there is better work coming in to Bangalore

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