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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,832 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 10,832 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jun 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free snacks and fizzy drinks. At least couple of leaving drinks a month. Convenient to smoke in front of the building. Private rooms for telephone interviews.

Cons

Useless management run by a cowboy MD and his close associates. Managers with no skills or training demotivate You. Micro-managed unless they like you. Customers suffer because skilled employees have left and leaving.

1.0
Apr 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Let me start off by saying that the pros are great: 401k benefits, free food, choice of three shifts (early, normal, late), open environment, and fun company events. Coworkers even host events and invite you to join so you bond quickly if you're willing to make new friends. You work in a great area where everything is easily accessible and dress code is reasonable. When you start off at the company, it feels great.

Cons

As you slowly start to experience how the company is run, you tend to question whether this is normal or not. Can you really not work from home? Are you randomly selected to work on weekends and after hours if you don't pick a spot to sign up? Are managers supposed to comprise of people with less than 3 years experience? Are you supposed to be punished for helping other people? Do they ever encourage you for what a good job you're doing? Can you even move to a career opportunity you want to do? You can tell from other negative reviews that they talk about inexperienced managers. They are true. I don't want this to deter anyone from seeing the bright side of this company (because it's still growing), but until managers get better trained to make everyone happy (including themselves), I do not recommend anyone to go through that and think corporate industries run like this. It makes your life stressful, you feel like what you're doing is not worth it, and you lose your voice and imagination that can better shape the company. As a disclaimer, not ALL managers are like this. There are AMAZING managers in this company, but I am specifically talking about ones in the Technical Support role.

1.0
Jan 14, 2016

Absolutley Awful

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

VMWare benefits are OK and some really nice people

Cons

All that has been mentioned - decent people are leaving in droves, for more salary but more importantly becuase of the managers. Those who are in the clique have done very, very well out of the VMWare takeover, while everyone else is slugging on. Bad morale, really bad management, no communication, no career growth and a feeling of "the sinking ship". Stay away at all costs unless you really, really need a job

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