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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 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 10,833 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).

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11K reviews
2.0
Jul 15, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good pay and excellent benefits - Free snacks and good quality food at cafeteria - Opportunities for career advancement - many senior people leaving.

Cons

This was once a company with great culture of innovation and cutting-edge technology. It has degenerated into a sad state, where mediocrity rules. New products are being developed based on old, obsolete technologies (hello Flash and ExtJS). Most of the talented engineers have already left. Some senior (and I mean "senior") engineers are still there - unable and unwilling to adopt evolving technology landscape.

2.0
Jan 27, 2013

Disappointing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay, bonuses, raises. Physical environment.

Cons

Toxic culture. Backstabbing. Managers who haven't a clue how to manage. No leadership at the middle management level. They just gossip about each other and their employees. Too much power in a few hands. Over past 3 years it's gotten worse, the emperor is wearing no clothes but no one had a guts to stand up to the one or two "bullies" who call the shots and are driving products into the ditch.

1.0
Dec 17, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

VMware still is the market leader for virtualization - but that's about it.

Cons

- worst call centre experience ever, after a startup mood and empowering in the past things have changed towards metrics only. Visions and ideas are suppressed and not followed upon you report into a black hole and get no feedback unless you ping a VP or senior director directly. - wording to be used dictated, no freedom of speech, no adoption to customer needs, improvement suggestions land in a back hole. - the Vision and spirit in this company is gone - workers are currently approaching unions about conditions - It still pays of get intimate with leaders, in order to progress in ones career

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