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VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services. read more

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 1080

TOTAL RATINGS: 11105

CEO: Raghu Raghuram

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Ray O'Farrell — CTO & Executive VP at VMware

Executive Bio

Mr. Ray O'Farrell has been an Executive Vice President of VMware, Inc. since April 1, 2016. Mr. O'Farrell has been the Chief Technology Officer of VMware, Inc., since April 2003 and served as its Corporate Senior Vice President of Software-Defined Data Center Division. Mr. O'Farrell served as Corporate Senior Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure R&D at VMware, Inc. Mr. O'Farrell served as Senior Vice President of Product Engineering at VMware, Inc. Mr. O'Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts of VMware. He has more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, he led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Mr. O'Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. Mr. O'Farrell holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

CTO & Executive VP Impact on Engineering Department's Culture

Ray O'Farrell holds the highest position within the Engineering department at VMware — CTO & Executive VP, and therefore has influence on the culture of the Engineering department. The average employee described daily life within the Engineering department as a Comfortably fast paced and challenging 8 hour day, stating that they are happy with their work life balance. Employees within VMware's Engineering department are invested in VMware's goals, and feel as though there is space for career growth.

Answer	Percent
Yes	80%
No	20%

Are you challenged at work?

Answer	Percent
Yes	67%
No	33%

Are your company's goals clear, and are you invested in them?

Answer	Percent
Yes	73%
No	27%

Are you satisfied with your work/life balance?

Answer	Percent
Positive	80%
Negative	20%

Is your work environment positive or negative?

Answer	Percent
Great	30%
Good	40%
Average	10%
Poor	0%
Horrible	20%

How would you rate the value & quality of meetings at your company?

Answer	Percent
Yes	77%
No	23%

Does your current company provide you meaningful opportunities for career advancement?

Executive Team Culture Ratings from VMware Employees

TOP

15%

VMware's Executive Team scores in the Top 15%
of similar sized companies on Comparably

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Do you approve of the job your executive team is doing at your company?

66% Yes

Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?

Department - Legal 95/100

Department - Finance 93/100

Department - Customer Success 90/100

Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?

Department - Product 66/100

Tenure - Over 10 Years 67/100

Department - Design 67/100

VMware's Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 634 ratings, VMware's employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an “A-” or 75/100. On average, Men provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Women. Also, the Legal department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Product department.

VMware's Executive Team ranks in the Top 35% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 15% of other companies on Comparably that also have 10,000+ Employees.

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