VMware reviews

* Total disrespect of common sense from various management authorities both local and in HQ. Some "administrativa" sneaky tactics and some arm twisting can also to be expected. * Stacked ratings! God help you if you were foolish enough not to keep a "scapegoat" around for the time your team's ticket gets picked in the so called performance evaluations. You may get kicked out even if you were just promoted. * "Quality doesn't matter. Reporting does." Management seems to not care whether the estimates you give them are accurate. Neither if you'd do the job pro forma, leaving someone else to pick up the trash behind you. In any case you'd better to adhere to their metrics and do whatever needed to meet the target number of bugs/test cases/pass-fail ratio/whatever. Dirty tricks allowed. * Ventilation system in the office is a joke. Once 80% (or so) of the capacity of a floor is reached it gets awfully difficult to make through a whole day and maintain your focus. Chronic headache is to be expected. If caught it it, please try not to drive on your way back - blackouts and momentary loss of concentration can occur and that's bound to get you in an accident. Trust me on this one!

Salary used to be good but the company does not provide share options anymore. The salary has also been cut in some positions lately. A lot of management issues: - The job presented during the interview is far away from the reality - This is partly due to constant reorganizations of the teams and jobs - No training in place except of a computer based training, do not expect any help from colleagues and even less from managers. Most of them don’t have a clue. - Some sales managers have very little knowledge of the company structure. - No team spirit (1 team meeting in the last 6 months) - Employees are totally out of the decision making process. Improvement suggestions are not welcomed. - No employee empowerment, no personal development path - In order to grow up the ladder, you need to know the right person; unfortunately the intelligence or hard working behaviours are no success factor there. - Incredible turnover (e.g.: 75% of a middle-sized team resigned in not even 1 year) - Despite this high turnover, no corrective action is taken so employees are just trying to cope on a daily basis but their overall career is negatively affected - No exit interview. Does that mean that the company does not want to improve itself? - In overall the management is done only by controlling (metrics, KPI monitoring and call control) and threatening. No long term strategy. No work flexibility, 2 weeks of imposed holiday