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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,839 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 10,839 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jun 10, 2018
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Pros

I have not come across a single pro from joining this company and specifically this project. i am deeply saddened that the values of this company are diluted by a few selfish and unethical individuals. i had very high hopes of working for this brand but today i have recommended many colleagues of mine from not ruining their career by joining this unethical team. however the team has a good bonding - unified by the atrocities of this gross (mis)management detailed below. so you can that the team thrives despite the management.

Cons

GSS airwatch is handled by the absolute scum of management that I have ever seen my life and believe me I have seen a lot of scum in my life. i have been in this process long enough to completely understand the mentality of the management - and their sole aim in life is to figure out and scheme hundreds of different ways to make life as hellish as possible for their employees. and if that was their measure of success i am sure they would get a fat bonus as they are exceeding expectations. The major scum of airwatch gss aka VP has the worst ethics and is a wonder how did he rise up the ranks to become a senior manager. apparently douchebaggery helps I ve learnt from him. getting to actual cons itself now ◙ This project has no regard for due process and rules are cooked up at whim to suit personal motives. everything possible is done to paint the engineer in a bad light without even hearing both the sides of the stories - because the scum of airwatch think what they do is right and everybody else wrong. ◙ Because of the major scum of airwatch behaves in this way his underlings also start behaving in the same way as they are spineless cowards who cannot speak up or have started to look up to him as a "leader". (i am laughing calling this guy as a leader) ◙ naive people reading this review if you ever join this team - forget about growth. Please forget about growth. the scum of airwatch will do all possible things to prevent you from leaving this team - this is because when you were born you were tattooed that you belong to airwatch gss. so it is obvious that you are marked as a slave to airwatch gss. ◙ the scum of airwatch has 2 set of rule books. 1 set of rule books for themselves and another set of rule books for their employees. the rule book which they follow is vastly different from the rule book employees are supposed to follow. ◙ the scum of airwatch will often paint a very rosy picture that everything is fine in the team and find ways to convince you that it is YOU who are delusional and not them. ◙ the weekend allowance is very very very less compared to some of the other product based companies. it is a mere 2.5k which is not at all attractive to work on the weekends. ◙ personal development is not promoted in the team as the scum of airwatch keep pointing to lousy budget issues and other such excuses. the takeone program which is vmware's personal development program is also denied to the engineers citing budget issues despite the fact that the budget is managed centrally and not on a team level. the scum of airwatch attempt to fool the employees in this way. ◙ the entire process feels like this is a bpo wherein employees sentiment is not cared for and pure numbers is the name of the game. some managers have also been hired from such bpos who solely care about numbers numbers and numbers. employees are treated like robots. ◙ some experienced managers who were technical at one point (dont want to take names) treat the employees like kids by shouting and scolding them. are we in some kind of pre school here? shouting at me wont earn you my respect. respect is earned when you display it. maintain a sense of professionalism and do not treat employees like you would treat children by scolding and shouting. rather than humiliating me in front of others you are humiliating yourself by showing your true charactre professionalism. i honestly do not know about other gss teams and the culture there. but in airwatch gss the culture is terrible and i blame it directly on a few rotten apples at the top. i hate hate hate hate to the core some of the managers here and i truly hope that nobody else ruins their years here like i have. i wish to god if i had another chance i would not have joined this team even if the pay was crazy.

1.0
Apr 27, 2016

Walking dead...Emperor's New Clothes

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The beautiful campus, fresh fruit, gym, beer bashes, celebrity entertainment, and the turtles.

Cons

Emperor's new clothes: It is an incredibly political place where people are no longer comfortable with speaking up about issues (product, people, strategy...). And there are certain executives who terrorize and belittle their people with no recourse. They missed the boat on public cloud in a big way - hampered their product teams by mandating that they support vCloud Air, at the expense of avoiding Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The public cloud offering is sub-par - does NOTHING to streamline the experience for hybrid cloud, which was supposed to be the POINT. Why would a customer manage workloads one way with private cloud and a completely different way for 'public'. This is what happens when you let a handful of egomaniacs drive product strategy. Walking Dead: The result is a campus full of zombies. There is no life there anymore. It's a sad, sad ending to what used to be a great company. And you can't blame the current state entirely on the Dell/EMC acquisition. We were on life support before that all came about.

1.0
Jul 14, 2015
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Pros

Fantastic place to gain experience as companies love VMware on your CV. You will meet a lot of like minded people who are very knowledgeable in what they do. The people that work in VMware make VMware the company that it is. Unfortunately it seems that for the past 6 months VMware has had an overflow of employees who are leaving the company. This in turn has put a great amount of pressure on the people who are currently still with VMware.

Cons

Management in VMware is one of the worst I have ever experienced. Promises are made but very rarely kept. Pressure is piled on to perform and get results that are ridiculous and impossible to achieve. Company (Management) needs to focus on weeding out the managers that are the reason for all of the senior engineers leaving the company. Currently VMware is not offering a competitive wage. A similar job in other tech companies can easily result in a 100% increase in wage. This is another reason why people are leaving VMware. If the management stopped focusing on hiring WPP's (who definitely deserve the chance to get back to work) and put more effort into keeping people with experience the company would have a much better foot to stand on compared to other tech companies. Also, in relation to the wages it is advisable to pay the industry standard rate instead of trying to get by with measly pay increases of 2-3%

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