Today was a busy day from running around VMware to NetApp learning about these diverse companies and their stories of success. This morning, we show up to VMware in Palo Alto, where we met with Jeff Goodall who is a man that fills many hats. One of those hats is a recruiter for brining in VMware. We learned that VMware uses green environmental technology, which helps the company cut 17% water usage and they also use recycled materials to build everything from furniture to buildings. The one fact that Jeff told us was that one of the floors came from Edison's house! There are 17 buildings located on their campus, which is broken up into three areas; Hilltop, Creektop and Planetary. Over the vast 125 acres is about 4,500 employees in buildings that total just over 1.4million sq. ft. They are leasing the land from Stanford, on a 35 year contract. The company might have a large land space, it still requires lots of building codes and regulations. VMware has its main data center located in Washington. One of the key importance is diversity but other key beliefs at VMware are: community, customer, execute, interest, and passionate. Some of VMware's top competitors are Microsoft, Oracle and Cisco. Overall, VMware is a very modern company in architecture but very passive about its surroundings.
After visiting with Jeff Goodall at VMware, we went off to NetApp in Sunnyvale; where we met with Justin Rowland. Justin talks to us that they use a variety of hiring processes and that about 75-80% accept their offers. They usually look for balances in; leadership, team efforts, enthusiasm, achievements and ability to learn/apply new skills. NetApp doesn't just hire based function but they hire on cross functioning and wiliness to try new things by branching out. We learn that over 77% fortune 500 companies use NetApp. They create Data using a process called ONTAP, which lead them to become the US Government's user. NetApp hosts over 150 offices worldwide and have one of the most efficient data centers. NetApp employees are also know for giving back to the community, which resulted donated around 50,000hours in donated time in 2014 alone! Justin talks to us lastly about how NetApp hows empowers and improves. Overall, NetApp was a very large company spread out through multiple multi-level story buildings.
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