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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

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
4.0
Jul 20, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice office with a view of the mountains food, espresso, and free drinks Workday ends at 5 pm, no pagers or late night calls. lots of happy talk about career progression

Cons

Very metrics driven and competitive to churn through high volume, burnout factor for sure. Sweatshop like cube farm, little cross-team interaction, I hardly know the people who work 3 rows down. Managers hand out memos with career ladder diagrams, but no specifics are given. This location does not employ senior staff, so promotion is necessarily limited despite the talk.

2.0
Jul 16, 2010

Respect

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, intelligent able to challenge your mind.

Cons

When regreening employees it should be an opportunity for employees to continue to grow with an organization and be shown that we are all in it together. Unfortunately what is being stated is if you are regreened at VMware we want you here now and in the future. For those of you who are the bigger population of the company thanks, but no heartache if you leave.

2.0
Jul 15, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice modern campus. Smart and intelligent people are what makes VMware what it is today. Good company with good products.

Cons

extremely bad pay for long timers compared to newly hired people and compared to the market no praise for doing a good job no career advancement no growth for promotion people backstab each other in order to climb the ladder, at whatever cost extremely NEGATIVE environment, very low morale people always blaming other people and not taking accountability for their own actions and decisions no communication no knowledge sharing - people keep what they know to themselves no process-if there is a process defined, no one follows it, not even the people who defined the process no true and real leadership to take VMware to the next level and to make VMware a great company to work for executive staff promises no layoffs but turns around and has 3 rounds of layoffs. new executives layoff people in order to hire their own staff HR staff does not assist employees and only assists executive staff does not care about employees enough to make a change and to improve employee satisfation- management actually said they only care about VMware and whether or not VMware is successful bringing back cereal and increasing 401k contributions is not enough to improve employee satisfaction and increase moral too many reorgs turnover rate is 60% and higher VMware is greedy

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