employer cover photo
employer logo

VMware reviews

4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 total reviews)
avatar

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).

Reviews by job title

11K reviews
4.0
May 14, 2010

review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great and very smart people to work with overall great culture in many teams challenging work and interesting projects to work on

Cons

some teams are better then others in terms of environment performance reviews are too infrequent and the process is poorly run

1.0
May 14, 2010

Time have changed

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People in R&D are really terrific. The overall engineering team is filled with talent and energy, sincerity, and passion. Many front line and middle managers are trying really hard to do the right thing. Campus is awesome, reallly earth friendly, terrific environment from that regards.

Cons

There is tremendous tension and mistrust among most groups. A lot of senior managers have come in over the last two years from failing software companies and have brought their people with them, in some cases entire departments at the cost of some long time dedicated VMware people. Silos exist everywhere and there is no accountability for internal programs or projects. HR can never get anything done. Just completed annual reviews and many people never got a meeting with their managers. Annual pay increases were late, arrived today and many many people received nothing. This will be two years for alot of people who did not get pay increases.

3.0
May 14, 2010

middle management is incompetent

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good team spirit, nice environment, nice office and canteen

Cons

middle management is useless, fast turnaround of employees, communication about changes is kept to the minimum. If the manager likes you you're fine, but if they decide they don't, sooner or later you'll be gone, no matter how good you are at your job

Viewing 10561 - 10563 of 10,833 Reviews

Glassdoor has 12,008 VMware reviews submitted anonymously by VMware employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if VMware is right for you.