Does VMware pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, VMware employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at VMware. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at VMware?

86% of VMware employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated VMware 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at VMware?

Member Of Technical Staff (458) , Technical Support Engineer (327) , Senior Member of Technical Staff (245) , Software Engineer (215) , Staff Engineer (205) , Business Analyst (147) , Senior Manager (136) , Account Executive (132) , Director (130) , Senior Software Engineer (128) , Manager (106) , Intern (102) , Sales (94) , Member of Technical Staff(MTS) (92) , Account Manager (88)

What are the pros of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 978 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 942 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 761 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 423 reviews)); "Work culture is good..you will learn lot of things here if you put your own effort" ((in 381 reviews))

What are the cons of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"I had a very Bad manager" ((in 243 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 138 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 71 reviews)); "Mediocre middle management." ((in 61 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 49 reviews))

What are employees saying about VMware layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about VMware layoffs and their outlook for job security at VMware in 2026.

What are the top reviewed VMware locations?

München , Unterschleißheim , Stuttgart , Berlin , Düsseldorf , Hamburg

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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 total reviews)

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 10,833 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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2.0

Jan 9, 2015

VMware: Unexpectedly Bigoted Organization

Federal support manager

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Pros

VMware has an amazing reputation within the Technical industry, is one of the world's largest Software companies, with great benefits and competitive wages.

Cons

"vmWomen" is the most startling drawback in this company. While I fully support equality in the workplace, vmWomen does not encourage its members to seek equality, it flat-out encourages its members to pursue gender-based preferential treatment. They have even gone so far as to broadcast an internal message encouraging the female employees of vmWomen to recruit, hire and promote other women - even if they have little to no technical experience. Sadly, this flagrant discrimination extends itself to the aforementioned HR-related processes and actions.

3.0

Dec 21, 2014

Get your free training and leave.

Senior technical support engineer

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free training's, a lot of different technical issues to learn from.

Cons

Irish Management Mafia coming from EMC and Motorola. Useless leeches.

5.0

Jul 2, 2014

Excellent learning environment

Ios developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Open environment leading to easy and frequent interactions. 99% of the people I work with are awesome people.

Cons

Open environment leading to easy and frequent interactions. Benefits related cons will be resolved after full transition to VMWare benefits packages. Otherwise, PTO policy is lacking and health benefits are expensive.

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