If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at VMware?

First, you must realize that VMware culture is really three different, conflicting cultures; you have a “engineering/product” culture that drives the business units, a deal-centric culture in the field and a values-centric culture in the operational/finance side. As a result, the EPIC2 values are fairly core to ops/finance/HR, but these are regularly sacrificed for product (usually passion overwhelms community and integrity) and sales (usually integrity takes a back seat to execution) goals. Above all this is the overwhelming culture impact of Dell culture, which is closest to VMware’s sales culture and most distant to ops and products. Not sure there is a lot to be done to improve that.

a lot more open conversations that are candid, honest, and more transparent.

I'd work harder