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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,832 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 10,832 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
1.0
Apr 27, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

They provide free chips, sodas, snacks and often bring in catered food. They pay fairly well and the benefits are decent. They try to fatten you up so they can catch you if you try to run away screaming from the overly burdensome stress.

Cons

They run skeleton crews in order to maximize profit at the expense of their customers and their employees. They give you far more work then you could ever be expected to handle in a 40 hour work week and then they ask you why the work isn't getting done. They will deny you the right to visit a doctor if only ONE other person is expected to be out of the office on that day! They do not care about your health or well being. They give you 80 hours of sick leave because they know you are going to need them! They blame you because they do not have enough people to do the job. They seem to be continuously hiring new people even while laying off existing people that are qualified to do the jobs for which they are currently hiring. They PAY a LOT of money to designated as one of the top 100 companies to work for. The attrition rate is incredibly high, one of the highest in any company world wide. After 1 year and 11 months I had been been with VMware longer than 44% of everyone else!! This alone tells you how bad management is and how stressful it is to work for this company.

1.0
Apr 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free training/exams on VMWARE products

Cons

-every other aspect of the job, stuffy enviroment, not encouraged to interact with colleagues, not even to talk work (too discracting) the office space feels like a prison... management take 15 minutes breaks to go and smoke every our, which esentually cuts two hours out of their day, yet god help you in you make two coffees in an hours... So clicky its unreal, and well if you dont like cars your finished before you even start, as upper management race around like a holes and have parking spaces right by the office... yet 'lesser' employees don't get spaces... oh and dont get me started on the HR department..

2.0
Feb 27, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Training, when management actually allow you the time to take it.

Cons

High workload and very high stress environment arising from poor management. Whilst you can take breaks, most never have the time. It's a 'bums on seats', hire-and-fire mentality where your volume of positive customer satisfaction surveys returned are all that matters.

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