Working at VMware in Palo Alto, CA: 45 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Palo Alto, CA Area

"Good experience on Production support 24/7 DBA end to end activities."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Good enviroment,great work place ,latest technologies,new improvments,great culture,growing company,support from the co-workers"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Knowledge on Tool which company was using,and good experience on the technical skill which projected"

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Frequent war room supports,no control on releases ,deployments,no proper process was in place"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We should have control on releases and make sure all testing done before releasing on Prod,war room support has to be virtualized for every releases"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"not much guidance is provided so as to focus on skill building"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"evaluate your past experience and verify the compensation and position offered is just."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"giving complete freedom isn't as great as it seems. I think there is some shortage of guidance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would motivate people around me to make them more productive and satisfied about work."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Company growing fast, flexible hours, but slow decision making and diffused accountability."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Too many senior folks, not enough junior employees doing needed work."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Company growing too fast. Lack of focus. Too many new products and acquisitions."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Fasting decision making. Unify business units with cohesive strategy. Ramp up support infrastructures."

"It was a special experience to work at Vmware."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Working with talented engineers was a huge benefit for me."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"There were some people that I did not like working with."

"excellent company growth, great employment benefits, poor middle management"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"industry leader in the virtualization space with strong upper management and excellent sales"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"stick to positions related more closely to VMware's core virtualization competency"

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"poor middle management focused on empire building and fairly high hurdles to development productivity"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"have a solid plan thought out before buying more small start-ups who do not integrate well"

"Nice job, lot to learn, lot of travel, teams work in silos, lot of commute"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Great technology, a lot to learn from, nice work place, free food"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be a jack of all trades because that is what they expect you to be"

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Teams work in silos, no or little communication between teams, lot of commute time from SF to PAlo ALto and back"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Force teams to interact and share. Allow employees to work from home"

"Wonderful work experience."

"Making the transition from small and agile to large and responsive"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"It's a successful company doing well, and the relatively new CEO has brought a lot of needed change to the original entrepreneurial culture. People are generally treated well and allowances are generally made for work/life balance."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Culture varies highly by group, but in many places is very political. Try to talk with your would-be peers and the junior members of your prospective team to get a feel for whether you will be happy in their culture."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Any more, there are just too many engineers needed to only hire the best, but the change to processes that help more average engineers make it far less comfortable for the brilliant people who have been there since they were small and hired only brilliance."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep your race horses in a different stable from your plow horses, and don't make them race with yokes on."

"The only thing this company has going for it is the technology. I would not recommend working there to anyone."

"At first, it was the best place I had ever worked. Then the CEO was ousted."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't bother with VMware. You won't have any job security."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"First company changed about 1000 people from salary to hourly because someone sued for promised back pay that was never delivered. Then they used some bullcrap excuse to cut peoples pay with the transition. After that, company laid off the entire support staff in California, but not before tricking some into training their replacements in India by saying the workers in India were a level 1 group and would only be handling low level calls."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Executive management has damaged the inner workings of the company too much to recover. They can jump off a cliff for all I care"

"Great place to work at."

"Engineer Support Service Technician"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"It's a fast paced environment with the opportunity for growth."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be professional and be specific with your answers."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Some of the management decisions were questionable."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Right now, I see management is trying to figure out the direction they want to go with the company. All I can do is just watch and enjoy the ride."