Does VMware pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, VMware employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at VMware. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at VMware?

86% of VMware employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated VMware 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at VMware?

Member Of Technical Staff (458) , Technical Support Engineer (327) , Senior Member of Technical Staff (245) , Software Engineer (215) , Staff Engineer (205) , Business Analyst (147) , Senior Manager (136) , Account Executive (132) , Director (130) , Senior Software Engineer (128) , Manager (106) , Intern (102) , Sales (94) , Member of Technical Staff(MTS) (92) , Account Manager (88)

What are the pros of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits are great and the Palo Alto campus is gorgeous." ((in 979 reviews)); "You can learn so much from VMware and give back to charities while still enjoying a good work life balance." ((in 946 reviews)); "Great for people really into coding and those who don't like much customer face to face dealings" ((in 768 reviews)); "Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone." ((in 422 reviews)); "Package for an intern is great: good salary and many activities organized for interns during the summer." ((in 370 reviews))

What are the cons of working at VMware according to real employee reviews?

"I had a very Bad manager" ((in 240 reviews)); "frequent org changes and layoffs" ((in 140 reviews)); "Upper management is bad which creates hierarchy" ((in 70 reviews)); "Middle management is incompetent, and multiple layers slow down or stop anything which requires an approval" ((in 59 reviews)); "Senior management has basically ignored the last 50 years or so of management best practices." ((in 47 reviews))

What are employees saying about VMware layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about VMware layoffs and their outlook for job security at VMware in 2026.

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Acquired by Broadcom

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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,832 total reviews)

Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.5

Culture & values

4.5

Diversity & inclusion

4.4

Compensation and benefits

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.1

Career opportunities

3.8

Senior management

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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11K reviews

1.0

Mar 9, 2020

Toxic Racist Biased Company

Senior staff software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

After the acquisition by VMWare, the company became a dark side. Some better benefits that we got such as free snacks, better insurance, and 401k matching. But the racist culture toward the founders ethnicity is the reason why so many people departed. Over 30 people left within one year including many people who only stayed for 6 or less months. The bias, the favoritism, and racism are too obvious to ignore.

Cons

Avoid for so many reasons. It is toxic controlled by Indian directors and VPs. Promotions are for Indians. They bring in few new Chinese managers to justify their inclusion to VMware.

2.0

Mar 9, 2019

Going down, great in the past

Systems engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, training resources, PA campus A lot of smart engineer

Cons

- Political environment is destroying the company, leadership promote their friends - Benefits changes, company switch from Aetna to UHC to save money and seriously impacting the employees and families. HR doesn't do anything to help, just exist for administrative works - The EPIC2 values pushed by high executives, doesn't reflect the reality on the management level. This is a serious issue across the all BUs

1.0

Jan 4, 2019

Most Awful 4 and a half years

Senior manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You can be remote occasionally

Cons

There is ABSOLUTELY NO work life balance. You have a great group of SVP’s and above. The MOST ARROGANT group of VP’s. There are so many things you can go to HR with in how they treat their employees. I’ve seen different team members reprimanded publicly it’s demoralizing.

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