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4.4

86% would recommend to a friend

(10,839 total reviews)
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Raghu Raghuram

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

VMware has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 10,839 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The VMware employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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11K reviews
2.0
2 Feb 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is good but you cannot spend as you don't know when your job will be gone. They have good tech events but enforce a lot of work which is difficult to participate.

Cons

Forget work life balance. You get 60% hike and laid off 4 months after that. Managers don't support your growth. Nonsense ownership model. You are made to work even in US timings to support customers. All Quality Engineers (QE) are threatened for job. Finally most important Layoff - they keep doing.

1.0
20 Aug 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Company is really good with Policies. Amazing product learning. Good Pay and Weekend Allowance. High Class Pantry. VMware as a company is amazing. I will rate 10/10.

Cons

This is all about VMWare-AirWatch bangalore team. Pathetic Leadership and Selfish. No transparency in the Leadership decision. Job Security. I have seen many good people leaving without any information. Manager's have an arithmetic which is not known and you can't ask that. Good Pay doesn't mean that you bought me and you can give a job threat every time. You will never get any help for your problem from the Leadership team and they will start judging you on the problem which you shared with them. Leadership will screw your life and you have to give a fake smile that you are very satisfied there. I checked with HR for such a bad management they said they can't help and can't do anything. So I decided to move out.

1.0
3 Mar 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary WFH, ample time to study for interviews ,

Cons

Frequent layoffs 2 times in a year , sometimes entire teams are wiped out or sometimes 20-30% , Performance is not linked to your layoffs , its the politics in the team / how your influential your manager is in the company . Vmware is slowly drifting towards Dell's culture and changes can be seen , and as said in a few reviews the EPIC values are and EPIC joke and these Values die a ironic death every July and Jan 29th . Culture has gone to dogs , be it US offices / India . Few people have survived this non sense for more than a decade , hats off to them . Wouldnt recommend Vmware as a workplace to anyone .

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