VMware Reviews

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

Pros – Good Work Life Balance. No Micro Management. Compensation

Cons – Management is not that good.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Current Employee – been working at VMware

Pros – Market leader in virtualization space.

Cons – Salaries can be underwhelming depending on your job responsibility.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – future scope,reputation and also package and bonuses

Cons – not found out yet !-

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 7 years

Pros – By working in R&D you get insight into how a computer works. There's a diverse array of software to work on, from low-level coding to UIs to website development. The core visualization groups can be a good place for a new college grad to develop good software development practices.

Cons – There was a bulk exodus of R&D in 2011 when the equity grants from VMware's founding CEO finished vesting. That founding CEO was replaced with a new CEO that could offer a vision for the future, but no plan to execute on it (nor a plan to "re-green" people, probably because he came from Seattle and wasn't used to the high degree of mobility offered by Silicon Valley). He also couldn't be bothered with running a company and hired others to do it. In 2012 VMware spent $1.25B on Nicira, in effect buying back some of the people that left in or before 2011. Shortly after he resigned at his 4 year anniversary and cashed out $26M in equity--since Nicira was funded in part by his predecessor that suggests he didn't have a superior vision after all.

His replacement (the current CEO) is more geared towards running a company but hasn't done much from a leadership perspective besides jettison the web companies that VMware acquired under his predecessor's leadership. In the meantime R&D has continued to bleed the little talent it has left while replacing them with lesser talent (at least when permitted by headcount restrictions), thus resulting in yet another big software company that has a lot of people who know little and accomplish even less. This 2011 bleed likely contributed to vSphere 5.1 being the "Windows Vista" of virtualization releases, and it's likely to contribute to the next release being the equivalent of "Windows 8". The "Principle Engineers" that remain are less ambitious and don't seem to do much (and certainly don't set a good example or tone for the rest of R&D). The company has taken various surveys to find out how unhappy people are but never took any steps to determine the underlying reasons why or address them. The newer hires try to deal with the post-apocalyptic R&D that offers little in terms of guidance, a high count of bugs to fix and burdensome processes that have been put in place to try to avoid bad code check-ins.

Advice to Senior Management – It's too late to correct what happened in 2011. Reassess what the company is now capable of accomplishing in a year and adjust accordingly. Keep track of what's going on. There's now a significant culture where lower management won't report a problem to upper management unless/until an answer or solution is known. This means you hear about the smaller issues but won't hear about the big problems until it's too late and the most you can do is fire people. Swallow your pride and reconsider whether certain software releases should still happen. Try walking around campus and randomly pick a few meetings to sit in to assess whether people are being productive and working on stuff that matters or just busywork and politics.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not 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

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

Pros – You have all the liberty yo express yourself to the management, but the BUCKET system is always preferred.
You Know Kannada...u can win hearts..
R&D, GSS are good streams to start..You will Learn a lot..
I know its nice money....BUT NEVER Join the IT at VMware

Cons – Its scary..
I have been there for a very long time and everyday its a challenge for survival.
The Management is very ruthless and is never employee centric.
VMware as a cloud company has a good name, but it has a very bad setup of infrastructure.
Things can go hay-wire anytime and engineers never have a permanent fix.
Change in IT management gave Several firings within IT and has made life miserable for many employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Management at US: Please consider Employees at India as humans, don't play with life of employees.
There has never been a proper planning and execution,
Company literally throws money for your Human emotions and values.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company