VMware Reviews

Pros

- Great Products
- Virtualization leader ( way ahead of Citrix, Microsoft and Linux KVM)
- Nice work culture, balanced work life and perks
- Technical growth in terms of Career

Cons

- Teams in India are mostly QA
- Not much appreciation
- Less scope for Innovative products in the coming years

Advice to Senior Management

- Need to make the decisions taken managerial level positions more transparent
- Have faith in the employees
- Recruit people with stronger skill set

Pros

Amazing people, pushing the entire company to innovate, support for intrapreneurial activity, overall business strategy.

Cons

The company still wants to be a start up but has growing pains as is par for the course with a fast growth organization.

Advice to Senior Management

continue to tap into your current culture to develop intrapreneurial spirit and commercialization of ideas/innovation.

Pros

Open culture, to keep employee happy is goal for everybody, tremendous growth opportunities for deserving people, flexible work hours and decent compensation

Cons

Lack of processes, too many products and groups working in silos, rewards and recognitions need to improve, people dependency needs to reduce otherwise empires get built within organization

Advice to Senior Management

Drive change quickly, bring in improved scaleable process, build leadership at global sites, get the inetgration strategy going and no more acquisitions till we figure out what to do with the current ones

Pros

VMware people are smart, focused, and friendly. The atmosphere feels professional yet has a distinct engineering vibe. Senior management solicits employee feedback, addresses shortcomings, and shows its appreciation on a regular basis.

Cons

The company has offices around the world, and chances are that employees will occasionally need to put in odd hours to collaborate with co-workers in other time zones.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't let the rate of execution compromise the quality of innovation. Focus your teams on the areas with highest impact.

Pros

Great benefits. Great people. Great technology. Well respected in the industry. VMware is the place to be for game changing technology.

Cons

Yo don't always get a good career path laid out for you. It is sometimes hard to get promoted within. As with all large companies there is a lot of politics at play.

Advice to Senior Management

Support your employees. Level out salaries and bonuses to keep in touch with other companies in the industry. Try to let people balance their personal lives with work a little easier.

Pros

Flexible working environment - flexibility hours and the ability to work remotely; management is extremely supportive of this
Extremely talented staff; some of the smartest engineers in the industry
Great support from upper management

Cons

Lot of churn in upper management creates uncertainty
Company is growing big really fast; need to be careful to hire the right talent

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure compensation is fair with relation to industry standards
Continue culture of innovation
Continue building talent from within company

Pros

1) salary. I was making more than any of my classmates
2) Environment... almost everything was free
3) As an intern, the intern leaders were extremely helpful and supportive and responsive of feedback

Cons

might be hard to get quickly promoted

Advice to Senior Management

Just because they have a near perfect GPA does not mean they are good team players. Hire someone based off their personality not just their transcript... it's only an internship

Pros

I like the vmware products and the sports facilities. The annual RSU grant is great too. The campus location was good too.

Cons

Cafe is too crowed and too small. Need more variety of food and better quality. Parking is kind of crowed too recently.

Advice to Senior Management

I like the vmware products and the sports facilities. The annual RSU grant is great too. The campus location was good too.

Pros

Leading technology, market leaders, good people of high caliber

Cons

It can be very political, but good work gets rewarded

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more opportunities for cross job training

Pros

Dynamic, cutting edge technology. Some of the old folks are very smart and have very bright ideas. Main campus is nice and modern with a great gym

Cons

Quite a number of good folks left company recently. New comers bring in different work culture. Inconsistent and unclear direction from above causes confusion and inefficiency.