VMware reviews

People don't leave their jobs, they leave their managers. I worked for a manager that would on average say at least 5 dumb things in less then an hour. At a team lunch this manager started discussing the origin of THE "F" word, I kid you not. She lacked technical skills but loved to micromanage checkins (if you can't read C code you are not qualified to judge a checkin). It used to be that people of such caliber would get fired in a heartbeat but as the company grew larger they would stay on for years. On the other hand I liked my old manager so if you are thinking about working for the company your mileage may vary. Another con is stock stagnation. The company might re-green you but if you are an average performer you can probably forget about it. Top performers have to keep mum about any bonus awards as it creates tension. There are cliques among lead engineers and lower ranks have to pick sides.

QA dept is looked down upon and not respected much. Not all groups work on cool technologies some groups are terrible and people does not have adequate knowledge of technologies they work on. Some are really terrible. dont even know the basics of computer science. There is huge gap in knowledge of QA and developers. HR practices are non existent and company still have some startup like immature processes. I'm not sure how secure the job here is because they started panicking from competition from microsoft. Paul Maritz is changing the way company is run under old leadership. Not so good feel.