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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,838 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 10,838 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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4.0
Nov 17, 2008
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Pros

Cutting edge technologies. In sections of the company, true innovation is going on. Comically lopsided culture where engineering rules and everyone else is stupid.

Cons

Large corporate culture has taken over. The culture of merit still exists among the clued, but there has been a significant lowering of standards over the years. It's now like any other large enterprise software company. The pay is good, but you're no longer changing the world.

4.0
Nov 14, 2008
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Pros

You get to work with some really cool new technology, and some new things that haven't been tried anywhere else before. The people there are some of the smartest that I've met, and their code is a joy to work with. The pay isn't bad either.

Cons

There's a lot of uncertainty there - the hiring freeze hasn't been helping, and with the new management they're trying to push through a lot of changes all at the same time. It's hard to know what they're planning on doing when they stop growing at the same really high rate that they're currently growing at. Additionally, there does seem to be a real lack of planning and consistency all around, which helps to reduce bureaucracy, but also means that they flounder around a lot.

2.0
Nov 5, 2008
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Pros

Leader in virtualization which is a hot topic

Cons

Arrogant management Bad work culture - Not very responsive management when it comes to responding to employee needs Bad communication practices - major decisions are not communicated effectively to engineering marketing is not doing its job of pushing products product managers have no clue what customer pain points are sales over promise and customers complain a lot about the products to support High end functionality is not working in most accounts parteners complain a lot no technical support given to partners like networking, storage companies chaotic environment in the company too much money spent of decorations pay is less competitive and now that stock is dead, its not very attractive

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