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Tech Support at VMware
Posted Oct 20, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Broomfield, CO (took 2 days)
The interview was an initial Phone screening followed by a couple of hours on-site a few weeks later. The on-site interview consisted of a 1:1 interview with a Manager and a panel interview with team leads. The Manager interview was just the basics, what are your strengths....? The panel interview consisted of over 60 technical questions. The overall feel was fairly casual and relaxed. I was offered the position but was unable to pass a background check to their satisfaction.
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Negotiation Details
There was not a lot of negotiation.
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
A recruited contacted me for a position with a specific team looking to fill a spot. Had a phone interview, then got flown to CA for a round of in person 1:1 interviews. Very algorithm based, problem solving, seeing if you understand how to code something. Very standard.
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Negotiation Details
I was able to negotiate. Compared their offer to another offer, with justification for the gap.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at VMware
Posted Oct 13, 2009
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1.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2007 in San Francisco, CA (took a day)
everything from your initial communications with the company, organization and planning of the interview, number and type of interviews, and any advice you might offer to other interview candidates. Bonus points for your perceptions of the people, office, and work culture.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Oct 10, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 months)
It took 3 months to go from my first email to a VMware recruiter to getting an offer. I interviewed with three different teams. Seems like if they think you are good but don't have the amount of experience that the group you are interviewing with needs, then the recruiter tries to find you a different group within the company where your experience matches what the group needs. I really liked the recruiters that I worked with, although the last of the three that I spoke with was hard to get hold of sometimes.
VMware's process for interviewing developers with less than 2 or 3 years of experience was certainly better than at Google, whose process takes even longer, and where software developers don't interview to enter a specific team at Google, they just interview for Google. Unlike VMware, Google recruiters didn't seem to be able to know whether you were likely to get a job or not based on your interviews.
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Negotiation Details
Yes. Although I was told by the recruiter that they probably couldn't give me more than $5K less than what I was asking, I explained to them why they should give what I wanted, I was cordial, I had a counteroffer (from a startup), and I based my salary request on what I knew about what my friends at the company make. In the end they gave me what I requested.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Sep 7, 2009
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took a day)
This is a tough interview. From the very beginning the recruiter asked me to explain the algorithm of various sorting methods, and comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Afterwards, He gave me a program clip, and asked me to find as many bugs as possible. That was really tough, because you have the pressure of interview, and you cannot think of what is wrong. I did bad, and did not get the offer.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Sales Engineer at VMware
Posted Jul 28, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 in Dubai (took a day)
Fairly straightforward. Screening phone interview, asking about the marketing, sales experience, including how much of face time I had over the years. Interviewer focused a lot on teamwork and strong full throttle approach on revenue generating in the ME region. There were a couple of questions on how I would have approached new sales accounts, certain scenarios were tested by the interviewer. My overall perception of the firm was fairly positive
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer, Summer Intern at VMware
Posted Jul 18, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took 1 week)
After submission of the resume, an HR representative contacted me by email about a phone screen interview. During the phone call the interviewer emailed me an image of a snippet of some C++ code and asked me to find syntactical and logical errors. There were errors on multiple levels: from easy to notice ones, like missing dereferencing operator, to more subtle, that had to do with incorrect behavior on particular input. That part was followed by a more-or-less classic algorithm questions, unfortunately I do not recall what it was -- I will recommend the book Programming Interviews Exposed for preparing for that type of questions. At the end, the interviewer took lots of time to answer many of my questions -- more than other interviewers at other companies have in my experience.
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Reason for Declining
I accepted an offer from a different company, partly because the department I was interviewing for (and hence the type of work) at VMware did not match my CS interests in the best way.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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LAB Administrator for Techinical Support at VMware
Posted Jun 12, 2009
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 (took 2 months)
I have been contacted by recruiter of vmware india and I have gone through 8 round of interviews and all was positive response, after the final interview the interviewer has mentioned, you have been offering, but next day I came to know from recruiter that, they are not offering, but no reason.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Jun 5, 2009
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2007 (took 2+ weeks)
The recruiter had a formal chat and then arranged 3 1:1 interview over phone. Even though all the interviews are fared well, there is no response from them. I sent a mail to one of the interviewers and he mentioned that the Manager is out of station and will give a call once she is back. But no response anymore.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales Engineer at VMware
Posted May 14, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 1 week)
After I cleared the in-house recruiter, I was sent via email a two-page questionnaire (probably ten questions in all) designed to probe both my technical and sales background - good questions, and it took me a full afternoon to address each one. Once completed this was sent, along with my resume, to the hiring manager, with whom I spoke via phone a few days later. I definitely got the impression he had only reviewed the questionnaire and not my resume. The hiring manager only had a handful of questions for me, so most of my allotted hour was used by me asking him questions - perhaps he had made up his mind already.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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