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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
      3.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      Great company, great products, great E-staff but bad middle/general management and bad financial mgmt.

      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Greenfield opportunity in a growing company. Original Core group of engineers is extremely smart. Has a very rich roadmap and game changing technology for OS, such opportunities just come about once in many years. Great location and the stock/company has the potential to be bigger than MSFT someday if they execute well.

      Cons

      With growth, comes a lot of mismanagement. Lot of repetitive projects all over the company that ensures that some WILL get scraped. No Software Development Lifecycle/Process. Poor performance and project management and general maturity of processes in the company. Top Architect level leadership on the non-kernel side, ie: on the VIM- Management Server side is extremely incompetent and poor. If you are just a developer, you will have to work hard to deliver and pay for a lot of mistakes made by creating a problematic general Architecture. There can be a lack of career roadmaps under the leadership of some managers. High-growth in a short term means lack of assimilation and there will be a lot of people that dont know whats going on. No training or career development/educational opportunities.

      5.0
      Jun 14, 2008

      VMware is a great place to work.

      Senior r&d manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      VMware recruits and hires top talent, so you're surrounded by good people doing good work. Everybody seems to be very passionate about their work. The management team is very strong, so I feel confident in their ability to keep up the incredible success that VMware has had to date. VMware's meteoric rise makes it an exciting place to work with ample opportunity for advancement.

      Cons

      The main downside currently are the growing pains from doubling in headcount every year. Some of the reasons that made VMware a great place to work years ago are becoming diluted and/or fundamentally changed.

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