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Updated Jun 15, 2013
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Project Manager at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA May 2012 – Reviewed Jun 18, 2013 New

Interview Details – 14 people needed to talk with me before a decision could be made to hire me. The process took nearly 3 months. Painful as you don't know where you stand until you get the offer. The people conducting the interviews were team members that I eventually became good friends with but what a journey.

Interview Question – Provide details on your experience with Agile.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – They offered and there was no room for negotiation. I tried to see what was possible by pushing the envelope but they were firm.

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Datacenter Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in May 2013 – Reviewed Jun 9, 2013 New

Interview Details – I had a phone interview after 3 days later applying for position . The recruiter was very helpfull and kind. 2 days later I had face to face interview with a senior director. The director was very smart and wise. We have talked about many things. His questions were not very simple. Overall it was a nice interview.

Interview Question – Do you know how to update firmware in a storage server when it's online ?   View Answer

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Software Engineer at VMware

Declined Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA Apr 2013 – Reviewed Jun 1, 2013

Interview Details – I have been talking with these people for a while, even before graduating. Once I am graduating, they were fast to follow up (in fact, they are the fastest to do so). However they were not pushy or anything, which cannot be said about all the employers/HR out there.

The exact interview is quite fun, with interview questions being interleaved with chats about your work, their work and their short-term to mid-term focus. This gives you an idea of what you will get to work on and helps to have an informed decision. Again, many companies from my experience does not provide such information which makes a decision hard.

As for interview questions, expect some of the typical coding questions with some system design questions. The latter is probably due to my area of expertise. Be prepared. There is really nothing special about coding questions. Study for it.

Interview Question – The employer has asked that I kept the question to myself, and I would respect that.   Answer Question

Reason for Declining – I had a better offer from another company to do something I am personally more interested in.

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Pricing Analyst Associate at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in Mountain View, CA Jan 2012 – Reviewed May 28, 2013

Interview Details – Went through the phone interview and interview with the HR manager, former Pricing analyst associate, 3 pricing analysts.

Didn't get the position in the end.

Interview Question – nope   Answer Question

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Enterprise Sales at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 9, 2013

Interview Details – Just chatted with VP Sales and then he looked me straight in the eye and said, "Why YOU?" I did not receive an offer for this job, and concluded that they are looking for dyed-in-the-wool enterprise sales people with ca. 10 years experience. I come from a non-traditional background and so should have had a better answer for that question. They need people who can hit the ground running immediately since they are up against Amazon and Google.

Interview Question – I was given a scenario in which the customer says that using public cloud is too risky, and why should they consider VMware as a cloud provider? The answer is that it's built on the same software stack and so the integration will be seamless.   Answer Question

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Technical Account Manager at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed May 13, 2013

Interview Details – There was an initial recruiter-type screening, followed by a number of separate technical and business-process type interviews. Following these, there was several weeks of no activity, then an inperson interview process that included a total of 6 people in groups numbering 1,2,3.

After the interviews, I was told someone would get back to me within a week. After a month of no responses, I asked for a status and was again told someone would get back to me within a week. I have yet to get any response at all.

Interview Question – They peppered the interview with out-of-left-field type questions. They weren't crazy how would you move mount fiji type questions, but they were asked totally randomly. It left me feeling a little uneasy and unsure of the flow of the conversation   Answer Question

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Technical Support Engineer at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Broomfield, CO Aug 2010 – Reviewed May 11, 2013

Interview Details – 1-Initial phone screen with recruiter. About 20 intermediate difficulty questions covering a range of general system administration and technology topics.
2-Technical Phone Screen. About 90 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. Mostly Linux/Windows and general technology questions.
3-In person interview. Deeper situation based questions and manager interview.

Interview Question – Explain what makes Paravirtualization different than 'standard virtualization'   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Recruiter handled negotiations between myself and hiring team. Asked for more twice and was turned down once.

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Analyst at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 3, 2013

Interview Details – Had short 10-15m phone screen, interview the next day with manager, team member and Associate on cross functional team. Lots of construction going on. Huuuge campus, wear comfortable shoes, and get there early, parking may be problematic, and no public transportation there YET, but I hear they're working on it. Generally hiring everyone as contractors for 1 YEAR- not direct hire, even if you know someone, seems to be where public tech co's are going. Interiors are very barebones, no frills. Cafeteria has good food though a bit pricey. Lots of changes going on as they keep buying companies, so everything's in constant flux. People seemed chill and nice, very personable, dress code was casual so dress one level above. Lots of hiring going on, but delays in decision making process bc HR process not very streamlined. another round of interviews awaits me.

Interview Question – What would your ideal manager be like? What would you need to do your best?   View Answer

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Intern at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA Jan 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013

Interview Details – It was long and pretty much a nightmare. I only ever had to interview once and it was a pretty intense interview, but getting in touch with the right people afterwards was challenging. You can tell there is a bit of a lack of communication between the different groups at vmware.

Interview Question – I do not really remember a lot of the questions, but almost everything I did iteratively had to be redone recursively and vice versa   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – The offer was kind of to good to have to negotiate anything

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Software QA Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed Apr 14, 2013

Interview Details – Recruiter found me at linkedin and give an initial phone interview asking about some overview questions, which went well. Then arranged a phone interview with a engineer. The questions are not difficult, but in details. For example tcpdump command, constructor of derived class in python and so on... I used them in previous project, but cannot remember the details. So failed quickly.

Interview Question – Tcpdump command, what the constructor of derived class in python look like, some other Linux commands   Answer Question

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