Is VMware a good company to work for as a Site Reliability Engineer?

Site Reliability Engineer professionals working at VMware have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 25 Glassdoor reviews. This is a lower than average score with the overall rating of VMware employees being 4.4 out of 5 stars. Search open Site Reliability Engineer Jobs at VMware now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Site Reliability Engineer interview questions at VMware .

Does VMware pay Site Reliability Engineer employees well?

Site Reliability Engineer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at VMware with 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 25 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 4.7% worse than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Site Reliability Engineer salaries at VMware.

How happy are Site Reliability Engineer professionals working at VMware?

76% of Site Reliability Engineer employees at VMware would recommend their employer to a friend. This rating has increased by 4% in the past 12 months. Site Reliability Engineer professionals have also rated VMware with a 3.8 rating for work-life-balance, 4.3 rating for diversity and inclusion, 4.4 rating for culture and values and 4.1 rating for career opportunities.

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"The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 978 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 950 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 753 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 426 reviews)); "Good salaries even if there is a lot of difference in the same role: the suggestions is to negotiate very well at the beginning!" ((in 391 reviews))

What are the cons of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"Poor Management and HR which is not helpful" ((in 420 reviews)); "There are some bad managers I have worked with" ((in 245 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 139 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 69 reviews)); "Middle management is incompetent, and multiple layers slow down or stop anything which requires an approval" ((in 59 reviews))

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VMware Site Reliability Engineer reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Raghu Raghuram

100% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

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4.4

Culture & values

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.2

Compensation and benefits

4.1

Career opportunities

4.0

Senior management

3.8

Work/Life balance

Site Reliability Engineer employees have rated VMware with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Site Reliability Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. VMware is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Site Reliability Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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25 reviews

1.0

Apr 2, 2021

Misguided management, no direction, constantly conflicting priorities

Senior site reliability engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits and side perks, remote friendly

Cons

Constant micro managing from non-technical managers, low comp for the industry, confusing and conflicting priorities

5.0

Jan 20, 2021

Perfect Organnization

Site reliability engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Stage to explore new technologies and great place to maintain work life balance

Cons

Nothing to metion, as i said its one of the great organisation

2.0

Oct 17, 2020

Too big to fail

Staff site reliability engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

looks good on a resume

Cons

horrible management bad ability to advance removed 401K toxic work environment yearly layoffs that remove 7% of employees

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