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      4.4

      86% would recommend to a friend

      (10,838 total reviews)
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      Raghu Raghuram

      78% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      4.5

      Culture & values

      4.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.4

      Compensation and benefits

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      VMware has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,838 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
      4.0
      Aug 1, 2008

      Good work environment, but forget about getting rich

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salaries and benefits are great. Corporate culture is laid-back, not cultish like Google, not confrontational like Microsoft. You're not expected to work 12 hours a day. Stock options were a good reason, but not so much anymore with the collapse in the stock price. Politics is mostly absent here; you get promoted on ability, not ass-kissing.

      Cons

      The plummeting stock price. Chaotic management changes. Parking nightmares. Too much isolation between groups; there are some groups which are off completely in their own universe and are in dire need of some heavy-handed technical cleanup, but there is nobody with the authority or desire to do so. The cafeteria at HQ sucks.

      2.0
      Jul 29, 2008

      If you're not an engineer beware of what you're getting into with VMware! If you're in marketing steer clear!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cutting edge technology -- great technical environment. Ton of industry respect and enthusiastic customer base.

      Cons

      VERY engineering centric environment that totally disrespects the role of marketing, product management, support functions. Total disregard for traditional human resources support infrastructure including significant nepotism and rewards for "yes" men. Complete lack of respect for individual input, initiative and experience.

      4.0
      Jul 20, 2008

      Really cool place to work with the usual few kinks

      Senior member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Absolutely the best and most brilliant people to work with in the area of "systems" research. Awesome technologies. Diverse areas of computer science to learn about and contribute to. Support for attending academic conferences. Rock solid products (routinely we have customers who run our ESX product in production for 3+ years without downtime). A tremendous amount of support in the ESX teams for innovative new ideas (including a yearly internal innovation conference that you can submit papers to!). The company has traditionally taken really good care of the employees and has enjoyed an exceptionally low turn-over rate due to this reason. The usual engineer-friendly perks like games/sports/well-stocked kitchen/gyms. The campus is very beautiful.

      Cons

      Growing pains associated with doubling the size of the company in just the last year and a half. Compensation for people who have been here a while hasn't kept up with industry averages (not a problem for newcomers). Promotions to Senior MTS, Staff Engineer and beyond are worse then pulling teeth. Inconsistent promotion criteria between groups. First level managers are predominantly novices (first time managers). Some recent churn in upper management has lots of people concerned but I believe it will work itself out.

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