VMware reviews

- No, Zero professional growth, even though the recent company-wide employee survey pointed out the same, lack of growth, development and learning opportunities for existing employees, no steps have been taken to rectify the situation, and its been 6 months. - There was a directed effort to grow the leadership and management team at VMware over last two years but rightfully or unjust-fully, all the revamping in the upper-echelons have the company has come from outside VMware, which has further encouraged the new managers to bring their partners-in-crime from outside VMware. This demonstrated a culture and Executive management support for hiring talent from outside then promoting from within or growing the internal employee pool in any way. - Your experience in engineering depends on the team you work for as nothing is uniform company-wide, even the coding conventions, tools and the culture from team to team(or Business Unit-Business Unit) can be drastically different. Moving between teams can seem like working for 2 very different companies with different cultures. - Stock-based compensation is hugely allocated to top-echelons of the company, and with the recent increase in Directors, Senior Directors & VPs, rank & file employees can only expect "token" stock based compensation, if any at all. - VMware has strong portfolio and product roadmap, but all the innovations on the roadmap were created few years ago, with recent brain-drain in engineering, it remains to be seen if VMware will be able to maintain its market leadership, as the company tries reduce its R&D spend( due to Board of Directory mandate to realize operational efficiency in R&D) and at the same continues to loose rock-star engineers as VMware IPO stock option grants are expiring.

extremely bad pay for long timers compared to newly hired people and compared to the market no praise for doing a good job no career advancement no growth for promotion people backstab each other in order to climb the ladder, at whatever cost extremely NEGATIVE environment, very low morale people always blaming other people and not taking accountability for their own actions and decisions no communication no knowledge sharing - people keep what they know to themselves no process-if there is a process defined, no one follows it, not even the people who defined the process no true and real leadership to take VMware to the next level and to make VMware a great company to work for executive staff promises no layoffs but turns around and has 3 rounds of layoffs. new executives layoff people in order to hire their own staff HR staff does not assist employees and only assists executive staff does not care about employees enough to make a change and to improve employee satisfation- management actually said they only care about VMware and whether or not VMware is successful bringing back cereal and increasing 401k contributions is not enough to improve employee satisfaction and increase moral too many reorgs turnover rate is 60% and higher VMware is greedy