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VMware President, CEO, and Director Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz

President, CEO, and Director

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“Neutral”

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  • Nov 7, 2009

    2.0

    VMware Systems Engineer:   (Current Employee)

    4 of 4 people found this helpful

    Pros

    Great technology
    customers are typically happy with vmware
    no lack of sales activity
    vmware still a buzz word company with customers

    Cons

    almost no promotions within the company - most hires from outside - great culture has become too diluted.
    turnover increasing.
    morale going down across the board.
    technology innovation stalling - OEMing more technology from other companies.
    internal sales tools are brittle.
    most customers have purchased their core technologies - concerns over future lines of revenue
    too many version 1.0 products - new products do not scale to the levels needed (or expected by customers).
    Reward risks - Presidents club for sales cancelled after the end of the year and after winners had been announced
    Sales organization divided into 2 branches (Enterprise and Commercial) causing large amounts of internal conflict due to no formal, enforced rules (customer assignments and sales achievement).
    No feeling like we're "one team" anymore.

    Advice to Senior Management

    Reward those that go above and beyond for the company. Reward those for their accomplishments without expecting something in return. Balance the sales organization and remove the divide. Make it one unified team again.

  • Anonymous:

    “Frustrating- should be awesome but in reality horrible”

    Nov 19, 2009

    2 found helpful

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  • Anonymous in Palo Alto, CA:

    “churn churn churn”

    Nov 14, 2009

    2 found helpful

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  • Marketing Manager:

    “We want the old VMware back”

    Nov 6, 2009

    3 found helpful

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  • Senior Program Manager in Palo Alto, CA:

    “A great company going astray”

    Nov 10, 2009

    2 found helpful

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  • Technical Support Engineer in Palo Alto, CA:

    “Heartless Bastards”

    Nov 4, 2009

    2 found helpful

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  • Anonymous in Boston, MA:

    “Vmware, great technology, great staff, poor middle management”

    Nov 4, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Engineer in Palo Alto, CA:

    “A Very bad company to work for.”

    Nov 7, 2009

    1 found helpful

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  • Anonymous:

    “Great company, poor senior management”

    Oct 28, 2009

    2 found helpful

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  • Manager:

    “Great opportunities as company and on tech level. Should allign processes better to avoid chaos and eventual crash.”

    Nov 4, 2009

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