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VMware Staff Technical Program Manager reviews

4.2

85% would recommend to a friend

(262 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

86% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Staff Technical Program Manager employees have rated VMware with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 262 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Staff Technical Program Manager professionals have an excellent working experience there. VMware is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Staff Technical Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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262 reviews
5.0
Jul 8, 2015
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Pros

VMware's commitment through the VMware Foundation to give back to the community through donation matches, programs to provide time off work with charitable organizations, and their ongoing presence and efforts at all our company events to encourage employees to take advantage of all these offerings is really special. Leadership up and down the ladder are very interested in providing the best opportunities possible for the employees and they have been on an active drive for many years now to continue to evaluate and improve. Truly fantastic and something I haven't seen in such force before. Opportunities for personal career growth through many different training options, established programs, and internal opportunities to move around and work in many different areas. I can't stress enough the opportunities for growth, promotion, etc. There are so many ways to learn about our products, interesting new projects in technical depth, obtain training on job and career skills, contribute back to the community(!), and opportunities to be visible and acknowledged for your contributions at many different leadership levels. Benefits are rock solid. Hard (and good) work is acknowledged. Flexibility in the schedule is superb so long as it's not abused. Coworkers are smart and driven! Innovation is a key component to VMware's culture and is highly, highly encouraged and many opportunities to demonstrate innovative ideas and even foster them into being are available.

Cons

I'm not sure if this is common industry wide, but the frequency of reorganizations seems very excessive.

3.0
Jul 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Nice campus (Palo Alto, Bangalore), interesting visitor programs (speakers, musicians), good bonus/stock (for some), generally nice co-workers and most are smart/capable (though not all "good" co-workers). The VMware foundation encourages community giving. It's fantastic.

Cons

Recent years, despite financial success/growth, have been challenging at VMW. There are various reasons. To me there are three top level factors in the company's decline from a top place to work: (1) "Stock advocates" putting pressure on EMC to sell of VMW to "unlock" share holder value. (2) Aggressive and (seeming) directionless drive to develop the next growth technology. (3) Infiltration of "Good Old Boy" management. The affects of each of factors are subtle and significant by themselves, but very impactful together. (1) Forces cost control and places a premium on a "need to move quickly" to hold off the advocates. This drives poor planing, staffing (no hiring in certain places, forced multi time zone teams), and a shotgun approach to product development, leading to poor execution. This puts tremendous pressure on the employees, making it a less desirable place to work, proven by high sr mgmt and engineering turn over in the last year. Replacement mgmt comes brings outside cultures, which can be good depending on where it comes from, but turned out bad for VMW (good old boys and empire builders that were laid off from "successful companies").

5.0
May 25, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

awesome people, awesome work environment and best campus, love to work for such creative company.

Cons

travel time to reach to the campus

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