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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,833 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 10,833 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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1.0
Dec 3, 2019

Stranger things happening

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Pros

So, VMware as a company can contribute to a lot of prestige, that's the main reason why you'll find most colleagues here or people outside trying to join. The office is currently really small, but we will soon move to a new building. You have drinks, coffee and tea for free. Many activities are done during the year. Callouts with incentives, good salary, gym, food card and other perks. The colleagues are nice, really nice. The trouble are some managers who think too highly of themselves.

Cons

Currently the environment is not nice at all. There are obvious things that are strange. Not everyone is treated the same way, from at least some managers you notice straight away who their favourites are, this is not cool as you also notice who they "don't" like, and are therefore treated unfairly. Unfortunately this happens in at least 2 or 3 teams, and no one dares to say anything. There's generally a lack of vision in the office, which is obvious as this still needs to roll and deploy. But even so, many will start looking for something else the moment 7 or 8 months are over. Remember, no one leaves the company, but everyone leaves the manager. We've seen already some performing colleagues being fired without any logic reason at all. This creates a cloud of doubt over the management's incapacity of growing a person, being good at conflict handling or neutral when taking a decision. What a shame.

1.0
Nov 7, 2019

Hit or miss

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice company grounds Cutting edge tech

Cons

Depends on the team you join. Some managers dedicate their life to the company and do not understand there is a life outside work. There is limited wfh flexibility, numerous social dinners, and lack of opportunity to progress. Long hours, and not giving enough days off during down time to offset the busy times. Heavy Nepotism. Promoting managers without grooming them. "Unlimited PTO" per say, but the truth is the company is robbing your hours. Some personal is highly toxic but their are surrounded by their minions.

1.0
Jul 24, 2019

Working in a bubble

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Pros

70/30 pay split, gym and food card can be flexible.

Cons

I was headhunted from another big American global having got tired of the same routein, corny American work style and being promised big things and then not being delivered. No difference here it's full of young inexperienced sales people. The managers are incompetent with very little experience, especially the EUC its embarrassing. Same old american corporate, high targets and solution selling products that companies dont want to buy because there are far better and cheaper products already saturating a dying market. I'm now on the hunt for a smaller local company as in Barcelona the big American tech companies dont treat you the same as their US counterparts. You're working in a giant bubble, being promised everything and getting nothing. Pay isn't as good as what the barcelona rhumors say they are, even managers are getting low amounts but that's to be expected when they are so inexperienced and untrustworthy.

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