VMware Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"I've worked with VMware for around 3 years and have found it to be a mixture of the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are some great people to work with at VMware. Unfortunately, given its rapid growth, several bad-apples have joined as well. If you end up on a team that has one of these bad apples, unfortunately VMware doesn't do a good job at shedding them (with 360 degree reviews), so it will make life miserable for you."

"I worked as an Intern at VMware for 3 months in 2014. I had a great experience. It is a dream job of interns such as me."

"Working remotely for the company has severe disadvantages despite them needing every service we do and provide."

"I've worked here since 2012. It's ok as corporations go. There is a lot of emphasis on innovation which is quite exciting but on the other hand there is also quite a bit of uncertainty regarding methodologies. There is a lot of talk about agile but the way it is implemented doesn't really make sense. Since the company has so many products at varying levels of maturity the one size fits all approach is creating problems."

"Do not join VMware as it is a company that is becoming highly politicized and loosing its innovation edge"

"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)"