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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,839 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 10,839 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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2.0
Sep 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Wonderful, well-loved, well-engineered, disruptive technology - Very intelligent coworkers - Reasonably pleasant atmosphere (beer bash on Friday's) - Decent amenities (subsidized gym, free drinks, snacks, decent on-site cafeteria, programs) - Decent hardware for developers - Emphasis on design / planning (sometimes too much) - Great brand name

Cons

- Too many layers of engineering management - Managers provide very little guidance/direction day-to-day or even release-to-release - Highly political engineering group, often to the detriment of the organization - Growing dissatisfaction amongst employees - Questionable decisions and acquisitions by senior management - Some lack of leadership/knowledge in non-systems technical disciplines - Culture has disintegrated since IPO and departure of founder

1.0
Sep 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The technology is great and works, clients are excited to work with you, workload is manageable when compared to other software companies consultancies. Market dominance overwhelms institutional incompetence. With as much churn as experienced over the last year and a half as well as new management; there is a lot of potential for improvement.

Cons

Green middle management is poor at resource management resulting in few opportunities for professional growth and knowledge sharing. Poor coordination of resources and internal posturing stints ability for leveraging experiences to provide best solutions to clients. Lack of project management experience further complicates things. Increasing focus on completing Milestone Completion forms removes focus from accomplishing what the client wants. SMB/Commercial focus hinders ability to credibly discuss solutions with enterprise providers. Engagements with an excess of two individuals over 5 weeks tax the abilities of the engagement management, when in reality this is when EMs should be used. Environment of upwards management breeds questionable ethics by individuals working to move up the chain as well as poor collaboration or delegation due to the need to impress. Upper Management seems fine, but there message is completely lost on the multiple levels of relative incompetence between them and the clients.

4.0
Aug 31, 2009

VMW Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The balance between work and life are better than in some other companies. The technology is just the best one. The growth potential and being a global business is very attractive.

Cons

Still being developed as a mature global player as its parent EMC and you may not have the advantages of the big companies (business class flights, company events, etc.)

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