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Small organization with no work culture. - Senior Software Developer VMware Employee Review

1.0
24 Mar 2015
Recommend
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Pros

- Free Cabs - Free evening snacks (for those who love oil bath) - Compensation at par with market standards

Cons

- Managers and HRs send mails to write good reviews in glassdoor. If I had an option to upload pics, I would have shared the screenshot of the emails send by these managers - This is not a US product based company. It is a Kannada product based company. People talk to each other in Kannada all the time. - I have been in 3 organizations before this, and this has been the worst. I have never seen any organization with such pathetic, low class, uncultured, manner-less leads and managers in my entire life. Scolding and shouting at junior resources in a common scene here - Support Engineers have taken up QA lead positions here and have spoiled the work environment entirely in QA. Nonetheless the QA team itself is useless so it doesn't matter much. - I was sent onsite for 10 days (which is the max no. of days for any person in Airwatch) and had a terrible time reimbursing the expenses. - HR team is entirely missing from the organization. They live in their own little world and don't even bother about what is going on within their company. They are not aware about HR policies, they don't encourage or do any employee engagement activities. Sending out - New Joiner, Lost & Found mails etc. is the only thing they know. - VMWare leave policies was integrated way back with Airwatch, still the managers and HRs say that they have not been implemented yet. They force the employees to follow the old policies because it suits them. - Coming to our Dev team, well, technology wise it is good. There something new to learn if you are in the right team. But the internal politics spoils the fun. And now a days the offshore team does only bug fixing and other support work - Unhygienic and dirty cafeteria and washrooms. Please search Airwatch in Google Play Store and see the review with your own eyes. You will get a clear picture about how much this product actually SUCKS ! Please don't join this company by looking at 3+ star reviews. These have been posted by the HRs using multiple fake IDs. They send out mails on a regular basis asking their employees to do the same. I too joined this company seeing the positive reviews, but later on realized that this was the worst decision of my life.

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5.0
24 Jun 2019
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Pros

VMware is a big company but in many ways had a startup vibe. That was great because the resources and infrastructure of a big company were there, but it gave most people I worked with freedom to work on many projects, influence, move around, and contribute in many ways. Plus, many things moved faster than they might at other companies of the same size. Perks were really great including bonuses, events on the campus, opportunities, etc.

Cons

The biggest con is the annual layoff. During most of the years I was there, we were growing like crazy, beating expectations, gaining in stock price, etc. It was always positive and upward. However, every single January, it was known that there would be a round of layoffs, even when all numbers were looking great as they almost always were. Management called it restructuring. But, over the years, some really good people were let go for no apparent reason. Then to add insult to injury, a week or two later, there would be a company quarterly meeting discussing how VMware was doing so well and is still hiring, but they had to make some changes. It always felt dishonest and the sympathy for those let go came across as disingenuous.

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