VMware Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"It was good experience working here."

"Culture is too hostile, not enough support from upper management."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"VMware Enviroment is Challening enviroment ,It's extremelygood enviroment to learn at VMware Inc using Oracle 10g 11G RAC DBA"

"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."

"Started out great, no longer."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Free snacks and other fringe benefits"

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

"The company's tech is great, just be conservative until current management regime leaves."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Senior management steps on the faces of their employees to get to the top."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do not forget the people who got you where you are today."

"Amazing experience, great company, great balance, excellent talent."

"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"

"I probably won't stay here very long."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Engineering centric environment."

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

"The interviews are pathological - mine was 8 hours of writing code. It shouldn't take that long to tell if a developer has talent. This betrays gross inexperience in the leadership here and when offered the position I almost said no as a result of the interview process. It soured my view of the place."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"It's very much a Linux or Unix culture. Windows development is somewhat backward and the build system is really last century."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Update the development technology in-house - use Microsoft compilers to compile code that runs on the Microsoft platforms. Stop developing for Windows as if it is a college environment that uses UNIX. Also,the HR at VMware is just bad. Not what I would have expected - not helpful any way and absolutely no infrastructure in place - no on-line forms of any type (W4, PTO, sick-leave, etc)"

"I hope this info helps others"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"The exposure to industry leading technology."

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

"IF you are eager to learn this is a great place, but be prepared to play hard ball through the interviews."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"The current changing culture from a Silicon Valley boom to a blundering corporate suite."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Please listen to your customers."

"VMware is outsourcing Tech Support to India. It's time for me to leave."

What do you like about working at VMware?

"I love the product and the challenge of problem solving an endless variety of customer environments. I especially enjoy the customer contact."

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

"Look elsewhere."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Lack of training and growth. Everything I've learned I've had to teach myself. In July 09, VMware converted everyone from salaried to hourly and cut our pay by 18%. I consider this a breach of agreement and am looking for new employment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Technical people desire to do good work, solve problems, learn new skills and take on ever growing technical challenges. Keep the bagel Wednesdays, the free fruit, drinks, goodies and other silly perks. Give people training and help them to grow."

"Fantabulous!"

What do you like about working at VMware?

"Freedom, opportunities to learn new skills and innovate."

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

"You better be very good at what you are being interviewed for. Real skills matter, not exaggerated self-selling."

What don't you like about working at VMware?

"Too much freedom sometimes results in chaos. But chaos is good for innovation right"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't fall for bad practices of bigger companies. Keep up the vmware culture."

"Great place to work at."