I have an interview coming up with VMware for a non-technical role and have heard from others that VMware puts a very high emphasis on cultural fit, more so than most companies. Can anyone at VMware share what is looked for in terms of cultural fit? Thanks for any insight.
Vmware is a giant Corp like oracle or ms, anyone who claims culture fit is important is BSing
Wrong time to join VMware now considering dell trying to buy VMware. It is bad for Vmware. I work for vmware and used to work for cisco. Current vmware is better than cisco culture. However, the dell deal may change that. So unless you are having issues at cisco....dont move to vmware as of now
You mean VMware buying Dell? Dell already owns VMware..
Bunch of assholes at the top of both companies. Dell has loads of debt. By september he is trying to make vmware buy dell. That way dell can offload his debt using the well priced vmware stocks
Don't worry about culture fit at VMware. Days when they used to care about culture are long past
Interesting. I know someone whose friend just went thru the hiring process who said he was surprised at how much emphasis was put on cultural fit. I know most companies have an idea of what they’re looking for (basically, don’t be an asshole 😉), but this person said it was an actual big deal at VMware, which they were not expecting. So, just trying to see how true that is. Maybe it was a one off....
I worked in engineering and was involved in maybe hundred interviews and have not once seen culture fit evaluated unless the candidate comes out as a total jerk
Don’t go to VMware I heard it’s highly political and racist
Culture varies bu to bu and team to team Please specify at least bu
HR
Large companies have multiple cultures, BU and function dependent. True for Cisco and true for VMware
Culture at VMware is important in some BUs. VMware values are EPIC2, check out https://www.vmware.com/radius/vmwares-culture-built-epic2-values/ If looking for HR role would be good to know those and frame answers in those terms. Whenever I interviewed candidates (non-HR) I always used EPIC2 as the rubric.
You want to go from Cisco to VMware and you are worrying about culture fit ??
I’m asking for clarification in prep for an upcoming interview based upon info shared with me from others. Why is that a problem?