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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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1.0
Jan 10, 2019
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Pros

Great benefits. Good location. Relevant technologies.

Cons

Racism and corruption. I have never seen an organization as corrupted as VMware. Chinese directors hires only chines people (most of them fresh grads from not CS background at all). Clans based on the country of origin is widespread.

1.0
Sep 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

casual dress work environment (to the extreme) night club wear is allowed. -inter company employee relationships are not frowned upon -tea and coffee are free

Cons

If you have a family or are thinking about having a family, do not work here. Work life balance is non-existent. 10 vacation days includes your sick days. Due to this policy, employees come sick to work and illness spreads rapidly during sick season. Because the company grew so quickly they ended up with "children" in people Management positions. These people have no practical life experience which directly translates into not being able to manage their employees. Management culture easily allows for managers to be vindictive to their employees. No privacy for Human Resource matters. Management style will not change as any concerns expressed to HR are then immediately told to the manager and dismissed, leaving the employee in the crossfire and repercussions from their manager for expressing their concern. Micromanaging has gotten to point that employees are spending more time filling out trackers than completing their daily tasks. PTO tracking policies vary across departments. Some departments allow work from home while others say it's against company policy. Having attended multiple tradeshows at AirWatch, you are treated like a pledge member during fraternity rush by managers. Instead of being spoken to like a human, orders are barked at you like a dog. Due to the open environment, when Department heads are supposed to be having confidential conversations--employees are able to hear everything. From ways to get people to leave the company to employee yearly review feedback.

1.0
Jan 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Pay above the norm for Milton Keynes location good state of the art office

Cons

Poor mid market Management, poor leadership, racist sexiest, homophobic and intimidation rife throughout the business that goes unpunished. Good people leaving in droves unless your in the club

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