VMware reviews

If you are product manager, you will feel great to work for any team inside VMware except desktop BU. The desktop BU pm team used to be a great team. However since late 2009, all of original founders who built this team decided to leave. The team was then taken over by an engineering director, who unfortunately lacks both product management experience and leadership quality. As part of the change, the BU also moved several engineering managers to this team to replace several experienced product managers. As a result, the team has been run by an arrogant yet highly inexperienced person. He basically can not and are afraid of making any strategic and operational decisions. He trusted people who shared the same qualities and can only follow his order. The morale in this team is extremely low. The team has a very bad reputation within the organization. If you are looking for a job here, my advice is to run as a crazy from this team.

Internal processes non-existent - company grew too rapidly in last 3 years for its own good. Too many top management changes in last few months - as an ex: 6 CIOs in ~ 3 years. Too much arbitrary decision making, lack of transparency, mutual back scratching at the highest levels. Lack of focus on key non-product areas like customer satisfaction, internal business processes, IT applications. Poor flow of information - downwards or upwards - for a company of this size. Amazing focus on empire building rather than organization building (again gven the size of the company, it is dis-proportionately large). Lack of accountability ramapnt in the whole organization - senior 'powerful' people have lot of visibility and power but it seems they are not held accountable when things go wrong - again and again.