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VMware Senior Software Developer reviews

4.1

68% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

53% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated VMware with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. VMware is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Feb 7, 2017

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Pros

Very good Company Good Talent Great Campus Great Benefits Good Work Life Balance Fairly competitive compensation

Cons

Company Leadership keeps changing Direction of the company is confusing and sends mixed vibes to partners and customers No Stock Options Vast line of products, but no good single point training to know about all the products and their integration.

2.0
Feb 2, 2017
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Pros

Great campus with lots of amenities like good cafeterias, a nice gym ($20/mo), and nice landscaping. VMware does do a decent amount of stuff on-campus for employees such as a annual farmers market and a annual fall concert for families. The work is stimulating to an extent depending on which team you're a part of. I worked for two of the UI teams at VMware, and both of them started out great, but due to either poor team management or just lack of project planning things always seemed to fall apart.

Cons

Teams at VMware do not do a good job of project management from the development perspective. As a developer we initially made up the project plan ourselves until it was obvious enough to leadership that the PM should really be doing all of the planning that we as engineers were required to do. Additionally, engineers may be encouraged to be "full-stack" but there really aren't good opportunities at VMware. Managers have said to my UI peers that there is no way they would get to touch the back-end even though the UI eng was a talented full-stack eng. The result of these things in both of the teams that I worked for is that the team was unhappy and overworked, features did not get completed in proper sequence with regard to API/backend work and UI/frontend work and either through mass attrition or lay-offs the teams lost too much talent to be successful.

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