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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
Dec 9, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting technologies Nice office and environment

Cons

Salary used to be good but the company does not provide share options anymore. The salary has also been cut in some positions lately. A lot of management issues: - The job presented during the interview is far away from the reality - This is partly due to constant reorganizations of the teams and jobs - No training in place except of a computer based training, do not expect any help from colleagues and even less from managers. Most of them don’t have a clue. - Some sales managers have very little knowledge of the company structure. - No team spirit (1 team meeting in the last 6 months) - Employees are totally out of the decision making process. Improvement suggestions are not welcomed. - No employee empowerment, no personal development path - In order to grow up the ladder, you need to know the right person; unfortunately the intelligence or hard working behaviours are no success factor there. - Incredible turnover (e.g.: 75% of a middle-sized team resigned in not even 1 year) - Despite this high turnover, no corrective action is taken so employees are just trying to cope on a daily basis but their overall career is negatively affected - No exit interview. Does that mean that the company does not want to improve itself? - In overall the management is done only by controlling (metrics, KPI monitoring and call control) and threatening. No long term strategy. No work flexibility, 2 weeks of imposed holiday

2.0
Mar 4, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I met many interesting people in that company and learned a lot from them. Getting an insight into virtualization and using a number of technologies broadened my experience.

Cons

Pressure for getting things done in no time, poor planning, combined with the manager's inability to be sincere, direct and unpretending and to make team members actually work as a team killed my desire to be in VMware.

1.0
Apr 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will appreciate the good firms you work at after being at VMWare - the campus and cafeteria are outstanding in design and layout since completed in 2008.

Cons

The worst work environment you can imagine, you will experience every possible error a company can make in business and personnel management. When the Indian employees complain about the work hours then you know it's bad! There is such a revolving door at VMWare that we used to joke about having a shuttle pull up twice a day to pick the employees exiting and dropping off the new hires.

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