VMware Reviews

Pros

No.1 of Cloud and Virtualization

Cons

Promotion and others are not equal

Advice to Senior Management

Middle managers not equal to all engineers, for promotions, awards and so on

Pros

VMware still fosters open communication, although senior management don't seem to be listening. Despite the management bloat, innovation still happens.

Cons

The focus on paper education over actual ability is infuriating. It seems that everyone who makes Director or above did so simply because they have an MBA. Conference calls tend to sound like a bad game of buzz word bingo.

Advice to Senior Management

You give out the title Director so frequently that it has started to lose value. Stop letting HR determine titles to justify salaries.

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

Advice to Senior Management

That would be good to listen to your employee’s feedback. Such turnovers are not normal in a company with such technology and corrective actions should be taken in particular on the managers. Some talents have been wasted and are still wasted because of this bad management.

Pros

Smart people all around. Easy to get help from everyone

Cons

for some department, there is no clear career path

Pros

1. work and life balance.
2. managers and coworkers are very nice.
3. bright future of VMware
4. innovation and creativity.

Cons

1. The management system are under building, it's not very good to come here as your first jog.
2. Producting process are not formal, all are under building

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention on raising efficiency of develope, test and maintaince. Please consider import software projects to achive it.

Pros

Good compensation
Great products
Very talented people

Cons

Some operational issues, and operation a little too small over here

Advice to Senior Management

This is an great company to work, with great products, keep the great work

Pros

Opportunity to work with the virutalization technology.

Cons

Politics at the C, E levels

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue.

Pros

* talent people
* good work-life balance
* reasonable pay
* interesting project

Cons

* lack of vision how far it will grow in the future

Pros

Best cloud solution and strong executive management vision
Industry potential is almost blue sky and vision is getting clearer and crisper
Great benefits and nice peers

Cons

Limited progression - the local HR prefers to hire outside than promote from within
Limited development opportunities - need progression paths
Poor executive management - as above and why are we planning for next year when I don't even know what we planned to do this current year?
Too many managers and arrogant HR function

Advice to Senior Management

Look after the number one asset in the company - no matter what position
Have more defined progression paths for employees
Less focus on quarterly targets and long term sustainability of our market leadership
HR need to walk the talk - focus on people

Pros

- Great engineers, a lot of smart and very talented people
- Open communication at engineer levels
- Interesting and challenge projects, sense of as part of a big thing
- Feeling of a community

Cons

- Politics all around, especially at senior management levels.
- Too much chaos at Sr. Director to VP level, causing lack of stability to build long term plan/roadmap.
- Fairness in performance evaluation and promotion.
- Brand new senior leadership not trusting front line managers and engineers.

Advice to Senior Management

It used to be a great place to work, with great culture and participation from people. There are a lot of talented people around. Trust people and they can do amazing things when enpowered. Bring the stability back, so that people, both management and engineers, can build their career and can have longer terms product planning.