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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
Mar 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discounted food and decent pay and other benefits.

Cons

If you get an offer from VMware, think twice before you sign the offer! The new employees are most likely to get laid off during the annual layoffs. If you are on work visa, you will be destroying your career and your family by joining this company. Layoffs are so random and they are not related to your performance. You can be laid off for no reason within months of joining VMware. Please realize why VMWare doesn't rank in the top 100 companies to work for any more! No matter how many billions company rakes in every year, there will be annual layoffs period!

1.0
Mar 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- A lot of Benefits - Nice Campus and good people - Knowledge and experience gained - Competitive Salary ( at least as TSE) - Free snacks and coffee - Company Bus - Annual Salary review - Good training and opportunities to develop technically.

Cons

- Live Balance is null - MicroManagement - Stress level is very unpleasant. - Minor opportunities to grow within the Company (not in the same branch) - Very high-stress environment to work in. - The survey is NOT a way to measure the engineer's job - Needs more strength against stupid customers - Massive rotation (60 % of people leave VMware in their first year) Live Balance is null, no chance to work from home, really bad Management, Senior People think that they are almighty sacred cows. I won't recommend this job and company unless your only purpose would belong to a leading tech enterprise and increase the visibility of your CV. During my 2 long years working there, there's no backup from Management's side against customers. They are extremely demanding even when they are wrong or have taken an unsupported decision. Does not matter, the most important thing is having a positive survey. YES, CUSTOMERS ARE WRONG MOST OF THE TIME. Adding to that, there is a new generation of Managers who don't have an idea of how to manage a team, how to deal with pressure and stress and how to handle a priority one case, really poor management. A lot of contradictory changes, one week you are doing one thing and the week after you have to change it. STARTUP MIND!!

1.0
Jan 22, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good employee stock purchase program.

Cons

The Atlanta office is run like a communist dictatorship. All fun, professionalism, trust of employees and sense of accomplishment will be crushed. They are dishonest and weeds out any non loyal employees, regardless of your success. Don't trust the corporate Kool-aid that you have a chance of ever being promoted. The top earners never get promotions even after years of service. Too many managers and no growth in this office.

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