

In the Top 5% of 1808 Similar Sized Companies on Comparably
In the Top 10% of 932 Nearby Companies in San Francisco
3rd place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably
Rajiv is the President and CEO of Nutanix. He joined in December, 2020 from VMware, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services. Prior to this role, Rajiv led VMware’s Networking and Security business, one of the fastest-growing units in the company, as executive vice president and general manager. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise and carrier networking. In his prior General Manager roles at Cisco, he led multibillion dollar product lines in switching, data center and storage and optical networking. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs and IBM. Rajiv earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking.
The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Nutanix.
Based on 206 ratings, Rajiv Ramaswami ranks right below IBM's CEO, Arvind Krishna.
Nutanix's CEO is highly regarded by the Product department, employees with Over 10 Years experience, and the Sales department. However, the HR department, employees with 1 to 3 Years experience, and employees with 6 to 10 Years experience have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.
Nutanix ranks in the Top 5% of other companies on Comparably with 5,001-10,000 Employees for CEO Rating Score.
Nutanix ranks in the Top 10% of other companies in San Francisco for CEO Rating Score.
