VMware Reviews

Current Employee – been working at VMware

Pros – Great technology and great people

Cons – management culture is very different than typical bay area

Current Employee – been working at VMware full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good learning, nice soccer field.

Cons – Bad Management. Need to improve talent recognition and stop hiring buddies.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire smart people, do not good people leave your team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at VMware full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good career opportunities if you can get your manager behind you but not so great if they want to make life hard for you.

Cons – not great management,very clicky and not sure if I would want to work there again. Pay rise are a joke and do not even keep up with inflation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at VMware full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good Technology in the virtualization space

Cons – Too Much information containing "cloud Theme" confusing to customers and partners.
Poor partner training.

Advice to Senior Management – Get Back to basics, focus on what made you great!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at VMware full-time for more than a year

Pros – Compensation + Benefits. Nice campus. Smart + helpful people.
I work in the Networking & Security business unit and it has got pretty good work culture. You have a freedom of choosing projects that you want to work on.

Cons – Weak release management. Need more transparency with respect to decision making.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop doing periodic re-orgs, stop acquiring "cloud" start-ups and concentrate on core virtualization.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at VMware full-time for more than a year

Pros – a lot of upside, great and talented people, fast-paced

Cons – heavy workload, high growth sometimes resulting mismatch in skills/positions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at VMware

Pros – The people, atmosphere, work/life balance, and products are great.

Cons – There are a lack of processes in place that need to be implemented to ensure better collaboration and delivery.

Former Employee – worked at VMware full-time

Pros – Meritocratic. Pretty good team-play ethos. Not a lot of interpersonal politics. Moving from one job to another inside the company is doable: it takes individual effort and diplomacy, but it's not taboo like at some companies I've worked for.

Cons – Increasing amount of inter-departmental politics. Infrastructure has a very startup feel to it, even though the company is more than 10 years old.

The company recently changed from an industry-standard vacation accrual system to a system in which each employee has as much vacation as negotiated with their manager. This will actually be a "pro" for any employee with a good manager and who's put in a lot of effort into building a relationship with the manager.... but the change caused a lot of anxiety, and the implementation was perceived as not very transparent. One side effect of the change will probably be that employees who don't get along with their managers will be more likely to move on.

Advice to Senior Management – The recent changes in C-level management have provoked anxiety, even though they're probably normal turnover for people who'd been in their jobs as long as they had. Try to reassure employees about this and to seem as transparent as possible.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at VMware full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Decent pay and benefits, company tech is ahead of the game

Cons – Management can be short-sighted, politically driven, and generally frustrating to deal with. Management by shiny object is often true.

Advice to Senior Management – Read a few popular business books and actually apply the learnings. Don't kid yourself into thinking employees don't see through your games.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at VMware full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great enthusiasm, strong culture, positive atmosphere. Strong appreciative client base. Tremendous growth opportunities in EMEA and Asia Pacific so the company still have tremendous upside.

Cons – Weak management, poor communication, political hierarchy tacking shape with ineffective. job defensive mindset beginning to invade Director and above psyche - reminiscent of Microsoft circa 1998-2002. Client base beginning to dig deeper in VMware value proposition, awareness of competitive offerings. Companies looking to ensure they don't become too "imbedded" and dependent on 1 particular vendor, and VMware suffering from that perception.

Advice to Senior Management – Establish an enterprise sales culture, to much focus on "the number" not how to effectively up skill the field resources to be able to achieve "the number". Far too many messages from corporate that confuse VMware's real strengths and direction. Messaging about Pivotal its relationship VMware & EMC weakens current VMware positioning. The 900 lay offs were a sign that the company cares more about Wall Street perception that its employees, and the manner on which it was executed and communicated was amateur.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company