VMware Reviews

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

Pros – Lot of learning, of various kinds of technology ...Leader in cloud

Cons – High work pressure, not so great compensation

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 a year

Pros – The people are very easy to work with, the technology is cool. great hardware to work with and we are well supported by management.

Cons – Still a relatively young company so not everything is set in stone yet, if you like process this is probably not your place. If you don't have a voice then this not your place.

Advice to Senior Management – Remember your still growing our market.

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

Former Employee – worked at VMware full-time for more than a year

Pros – Big company perks. Pays well.

Cons – If you are not a star working on the core product, you do not feel valued. Several groups internally are working on competing technologies. Marketing team has little idea how the actual products work. Very old-school management philosophies, set deadline and work harder. Lots of late nights in Palo Alto.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in process improvements, get lean. Middle management and marketing are wasteful, causing mass confusion and less productive R&D teams.

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 3 years

Pros – Good people, multicultural, free drinks/snacks/coffee, weekly food provided

Cons – Little or no career progress, appears to be a "dead-end", pretty much a call center mentality!
tenured employees aren't kept and hit a brick wall, then leave
Overworked, workload exponentially growing with no relief or very slow ramp-up/backfill
"Changes" are implemented on the fly, with little or no research on impact to employees

Advice to Senior Management – Need more headcount, more resources to relieve TSEs, more career development/advancement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Excellent campus and work amenities. Interaction within teams is very good and for the most part there is a lot of bright and talented individual contributors. VMware also does a lot for the community and in the spirit of Paul Maritz believes in "giving back more than you take". VMware is attempting to get back to a lean and mean state but it might be to little to late as the competition is becoming fierce in the Cloud and Software Defined Data Center arena. The current CEO was brought in to help right and repoint the ship, the outcome of that is still unfolding.

Cons – Organization is very siloed. Large organization mentality is setting in. Room for growth is non-existant, feedback from management is also zero. As an organization VMware has lost its agility as it has grown (almost to a debilitating point) and at the same time not reinvested in its systems and framework for a growing organization. This creates a poor environment to actually get anything done. Annual review process is very lengthy and cumbersome as the mgmt. has been working on reviews (and everything that goes with them) for 6 months.

Advice to Senior Management – time to flatten the organization structure a little bit. empower remaining management and hold them accountable. Provide some incentive for veteran/long term employees to stay vs being recruited by everyone else trying to get in the cloud space

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at VMware full-time for more than a year

Pros – Many fantastic and dedicated people work here. Great technology.

Cons – Did not get the support required from upper management to success at my career.

Advice to Senior Management – Support your teams. There are/were good people there that are being/have been taken advantage of.

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

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

Pros – Innovative technology
Fast Paced
one of the leaders in it's space

Cons – VMWare was full of great talent and collaboration but they have pushed most of the great talent out of the company. The few great people they have left are underpaid and under appreciated.

Advice to Senior Management – The problems that persist are not new and throwing additional headcount to fix the issues will not solve the core problems existing within the company. Be Accountable!

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 – Stocked kitchen, great benefits, paid volunteer hours

Cons – VMware's vision of continuing their start-up culture is lost once you begin to feel like yet another number, high turn-over rate

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the "little people".

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

Pros – Good compensation (if you negotiate your salary during the job interview, or else, you'll be stuck)
Possibility to travel to US or Europe
Looks good on CV

Cons – The center has seen a lot of people leaving but currently it's unable to hire good ones (brain drain with only WPPs being hired).
People are leaving because they are underpaid or they found something more interesting to do.
The place wast turned upside down with the big focus on metrics and Csats. A TSE is someone who has to take calls, close a minimum of x cases per day and at the end of the day, will also have to keep customers happy (while most of times there is no proper training for new or existing products). Feels like working on a factory.
Company has a multi-cultural environment but 95% of the management is Irish.

Advice to Senior Management – You can not compete with Bangalore on price. It's a race to the bottom.

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 less than a year

Pros – Best work environment
Managers invest in personal and career development
Clear goals are set and advancement within VMware is highly encouraged
Open to new ideas to promote a more efficient workforce
The product is well received. People want to receive calls from VMware
There is always a new challenge - products are always improving and there is always something new to bring up in customer discussions

Cons – Not many cons here. The training wasn't top notch right in the beginning but now there are endless amounts of training available.

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