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 956 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 943 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 766 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 413 reviews)); "Work culture is good..you will learn lot of things here if you put your own effort" ((in 382 reviews))

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

"Poor Management and HR which is not helpful" ((in 426 reviews)); "I had a very Bad manager" ((in 248 reviews)); "Frequent Layoffs twice in a year" ((in 144 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Middle management is incompetent, and multiple layers slow down or stop anything which requires an approval" ((in 60 reviews))

What are employees saying about VMware layoffs in 2026?

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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11K reviews

3.0

Oct 11, 2010

Great company, but the support management is pure amateur hour

Technical support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

It is THE place to be for the upcoming cloud computing field. Seems to be a good company as long as you're outside the support (GSS) organization.

Cons

GSS management is pure amateur hour. They change to one side this month, and next month, are changing back to the way it used to be. Complete joke. Also, factor-in the ~18% pay cut in the "reclassification" to hourly for the support engineers and you end-up making less than you made when you started years ago! No matter what anyone tells you, this is a call center and driven entirely by metrics and making you pump the call volume.

4.0

Oct 8, 2010

innovation focused company

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Diane Greene set up one of the greatest software companies in history and Paul Maritz extended very well by laying out a very nice vision.

Cons

From a company valuing people to a company valuing spreadsheet metrics a bit more. Organization structure is a lot more "scalable". Nothing wrong with any of the above especially considering vmware is a publicly traded company after all.

3.0

Oct 8, 2010

Great technology, great prospects, massive change and poor compensation

Product supportability engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The Palo Alto office is a dream. Beautiful, full of trees. Great cafeteria and gym. Fantastic perks such as on-site dental, dry-cleaning, and gym. The company has a great future and super vision. Most people are very willing to work together for the common good

Cons

Value of the individual contributor is limited. Layoffs show the lack of value in accumulated knowledge of employees. There is no coordinated effort to help employees advance. No system of any kind for training and `advancement. Some areas of the company are very political.

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