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 4, 2010

Good place to work but overshadowed with problems with growth.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

- Free snacks, drinks, cereal, beer bashes, etc. - Work-life balance, relaxed environment - Great campus and cafeteria - Smart people - Awesome and groundbreaking technology

Cons

- Incompetent upper management - Growing pains - Weak leadership - Office politics/gossip/rumors - Sometimes communication between groups are bad - Starting to get a bit crowded - Very questionable hiring practices. Many teams has been interviewing many talented candidates for a while and have not hired a single candidate. It seems most teams have a bias on hiring only Masters students only, which is hypocritical because the positions list Bachelors degrees as well. Most notoriously, the (UX) User Experience team.

4.0

Oct 1, 2010

Senior QA guy

Software qa engineer

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Pros

A lot of smart people to learn from, and it is (or was) a really laid back place.

Cons

Too many chiefs and not enough indians.

1.0

Sep 29, 2010

Avoid VMWare in Colorado Springs

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

The compensation is about fifteen percent higher than many technical companies in the Colorado Springs area. The benefits are decent.

Cons

Very political, hostile work environment. Most people are promoted based on personal friendships, not merit. The long term engineers (8 years and longer) are paid about 40% above the local market and spend most of their time on personal projects or reading, and very little on shippable product. More recent hires (about 4 years and less) are usually assigned to grunt work until they burn out and leave.

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