VMware reviews

VMware is in dire need of good management having wasted years while waiting for Microsoft to create a virtualization product. Marketing could be better as everyone has heard of Microsoft's products, but not VMware's. For the engineers, the infrastructure leaves much to be desired. Automated testing is lacking, and manual QA is scattered throughout the world. A lot of time is wasted trying to track down issues with someone who is 12 hours ahead you leading to week long e-mail exchanges. Management seems to care more about counting beans than getting resources that engineers need to effectively do their job. Politics leading to changing requirements on top of poor communication leads to projects being late, scrapped, or rewritten unnecessarily.

Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices. Discussion and rigorous thinking are basically discouraged -- if you can't yell it out in two sentences you are cut off. Decisions are mostly only top down -- sr management likes to give orders and commands but doesn't like listening to employees or customers. Finance and HR are staffed with mostly incompetent employees. Planning is dysfunctional so everything is a last minute fire drill. It is a fire drill culture so burn out and attrition are high. Sr management is mostly tone deaf to both employees and customers (partners are treated fairly well) so sr management is basically clueless as to why attrition is high and new products are not selling. The lack of listening and discussion has allowed some monumentally bad business decision to proceed.