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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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131 reviews
5.0
Jan 2, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can work with best talents in the industry. Mostly interesting work.Visibility in dev team. Friendly colleagues. Free AC cabs. Recognition if you perform in team.

Cons

Nothing makes me worry yet.

2.0
Apr 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good domain Good future for the company VMware bringing in lot of expertise and brand equity

Cons

Quality of hiring in engineering has to improve Make sure your hires actually know how to code before getting them on-board Hiring and firing immediately in 3 months is not sustainable. Shows engineering leadership in poor light, it's NOT a candidate's fault if we "hired" them. Because it's OUR job to recognize talent, not the candidate's. Most of your senior people are evangelists - Security evangelist, UX evangelist, 'Microservices' evangelist - where are your developers?

1.0
Mar 24, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Free Cabs - Free evening snacks (for those who love oil bath) - Compensation at par with market standards

Cons

- Managers and HRs send mails to write good reviews in glassdoor. If I had an option to upload pics, I would have shared the screenshot of the emails send by these managers - This is not a US product based company. It is a Kannada product based company. People talk to each other in Kannada all the time. - I have been in 3 organizations before this, and this has been the worst. I have never seen any organization with such pathetic, low class, uncultured, manner-less leads and managers in my entire life. Scolding and shouting at junior resources in a common scene here - Support Engineers have taken up QA lead positions here and have spoiled the work environment entirely in QA. Nonetheless the QA team itself is useless so it doesn't matter much. - I was sent onsite for 10 days (which is the max no. of days for any person in Airwatch) and had a terrible time reimbursing the expenses. - HR team is entirely missing from the organization. They live in their own little world and don't even bother about what is going on within their company. They are not aware about HR policies, they don't encourage or do any employee engagement activities. Sending out - New Joiner, Lost & Found mails etc. is the only thing they know. - VMWare leave policies was integrated way back with Airwatch, still the managers and HRs say that they have not been implemented yet. They force the employees to follow the old policies because it suits them. - Coming to our Dev team, well, technology wise it is good. There something new to learn if you are in the right team. But the internal politics spoils the fun. And now a days the offshore team does only bug fixing and other support work - Unhygienic and dirty cafeteria and washrooms. Please search Airwatch in Google Play Store and see the review with your own eyes. You will get a clear picture about how much this product actually SUCKS ! Please don't join this company by looking at 3+ star reviews. These have been posted by the HRs using multiple fake IDs. They send out mails on a regular basis asking their employees to do the same. I too joined this company seeing the positive reviews, but later on realized that this was the worst decision of my life.

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