VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has
the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We
look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make
technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and
security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation
for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are
transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of
what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion,
integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at
http://careers.vmware.com.
Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
As you join VMware, you will help grow a company that makes
meaningful and significant technology solutions and is committed to
being a "force for good" in technology. Our mission is to
become the trusted foundation for accelerating innovation in an
unpredictable world. VMware software is essential for making the
applications and devices your family and friends use every day a
reality. Which means your work is essential for transforming
everywhere.
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the
first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
In your first week in VMWare, you will onboard to the company's
processes, get to know your colleagues and team
In you first month, you will deep dive into the technical
onboarding, getting to know the products you will be working on,
meeting relevant engineers to help you onboard better, always with
practice and work on the actual products in mind
In the first three months, taking your next steps in the normal
team operations, you will take ownership in 2 or more features and
drive their delivery e2e, adhering to the team's delivery
process. You will be introduced to the on-call duties your team
provides and help other, more junior team members troubleshoot a
problem, research a task they need to work on and provide advice on
possible solutions.
In the first half an year, you will already be an integral part of
the team, having your own epics and adhering to their delivery. You
will become go-to-person for that piece of the product. You will
also contribute more and more on other 2-3 major initiatives,
expanding your experience, gaining domain knowledge and look for
new opportunities on features you can take and own
In the first year of your time in VMWare, you will become a
recognized expert in your team on the epics you own. Having gained
domain knowledge on a subject, you will start working on design and
architecture tasks for its further improvements based on the
team's roadmap.
The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments,
requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular
basis?
Deliver features within the extensibility points of the current
systems and work on new deliveries based on scope and roadmap
You will take the initiative in resolving issues reported by other
teams and business units
You will proactively monitor all your team's pipelines and
resolve any issues. Goal is to have them all green, all the
time
You will do technical research on your own epics, based on approved
design and architecture, prepare scope of work and present it to
your colleagues once a week in a way they can understand and
measure the effort needed to complete the work.
You will be mentoring your junior colleagues, providing them with
needed advice and assistance to unblock them
You will do code reviews and serve as an approver on your
team's Merge Requests and resolve any threads started on your
own Merge Requests