VMware reviews

Upper management doesn't understand the needs of it's employees.Benefits provided to employees don't really do what they are supposed to. It almost seems as though some benefits were provided to check a box. Reckless spending and hiring by mid-level management has been having a pretty steady impact on the ability of the engineering and management team. One can't help but think that some incompetence has crept in. Further, the challenges in technology are not clear to those who don't work on it. Still, these folks sometimes make technology decisions. Though the company has a very bright future, the stock has taken a huge dip. It's unfortunate that upper management hasn't put in the effort to correct misconceptions on Wall Street about the technology or the company.

Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices. Discussion and rigorous thinking are basically discouraged -- if you can't yell it out in two sentences you are cut off. Decisions are mostly only top down -- sr management likes to give orders and commands but doesn't like listening to employees or customers. Finance and HR are staffed with mostly incompetent employees. Planning is dysfunctional so everything is a last minute fire drill. It is a fire drill culture so burn out and attrition are high. Sr management is mostly tone deaf to both employees and customers (partners are treated fairly well) so sr management is basically clueless as to why attrition is high and new products are not selling. The lack of listening and discussion has allowed some monumentally bad business decision to proceed.