VMware Reviews

Pros

- Innovative technology
- Promising and growing technology
- Company Growth
- Flexibility on learning new things

Cons

- Poor management & promotions paths
- Frequent re-org affecting employees career growth.
- Too many managers and frequent manager changes.
- Lack of visibility due to re-org.

Advice to Senior Management

- Get some new exp managers who can understand the employees difficulties and issues.
- Improve upper management.

Pros

- Many bright engineer to work with
- Great technology

Cons

- Taking longer time to get things done
- Compensation is not very attractive
- Internal tools keep changing

Pros

Cutting edge technology with market leader owned by EMC.
Good compensation plans if you over achieve sales plans

Cons

Poor communication and training from sales enablement and company marketing.
Executive Management believes marketing is not necessary to sell solutions.
Employees are not treated with respect from management

Advice to Senior Management

Put more emphasis on team building activities, sales enablement and better compensation plans through the reseller channel.

Pros

Decent pay in comparison to industry
Great stock performance
Extremely supportive senior management team
Great benefits, free expresso, free breakfast, free fruits and bagels
Great coworkers

Cons

Internal IT tools not up to par as other companies, this definitely needs improvement

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to invest in the employees and their development
Review pay to make sure employee's pay are up to par with industry - VMware is doing well

Pros

- vSphere Customer base
- Paul Maritz is a visionary
- Stock price

Cons

- Customer Operations and Finance is without leadership and experience - although VMW is a products company with great engineering - business operations execution and financial management is extremely weak
- Lack of teamwork and corporate culture

Advice to Senior Management

Eliminate the Office of the President and hire an experienced leader to motivate the troops - both engineering and sales.

Pros

-At the edge of technology innovation
-Variety in exciting products and features
-Shares offered by the company
-Free breakfast and snacks

Cons

- Poor management
- innacurate forecasting, reporting and targets
- poor promotions paths
- It is "who you know" and not what you know ...

Advice to Senior Management

Change managers and go for experienced and fair people. You will get the best of your people if you pay them and treat them fairly

Pros

- Great technology
- Great brand
- Good push to enable employee innovation
- good spot reward system
- Great employee ecosystem

Cons

- Quality of people now being hired is not as great
- Performance evaluation does not allow reportees to feedback on manager

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the push to enable employees to innovate and contribute to the ecosystem, both inside and outside. Please enable people in non-US countries to contribute as much as the ones on the US campus.

Pros

in the beginning it was supportive of driving and implementing best practices

Cons

new management came in which resulted in mass lay-offs and openings for growth taken

Advice to Senior Management

look at what you have before you just get rid of people

Pros

Stock performance from past years strategy and technology.

Cons

Got to throw or been thrown under the bus. Only way to get ahead is at other's expense. Not about the value you provide and qaulity of work. HR is just a joke.

Pros

Virtualization and cloud computing, technology

Cons

Compensation is not up to the market