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Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Web Analytics Manager (Analyst?) at VMware
Posted Dec 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 days)
Applied online. Also had internal referral. Recruiter called and spoke for 2 minutes. Few days of complete silence. Got an email after 2-3 weeks. Had a 30-min (very 1-sided and generic) call with a newly-hired Director. Job ad said Manager, interviewer said Analyst. (??!!) I was perplexed. Those two are definitely different roles, it could not be a typo! My friend has this job now. Hear its a good company. But the hiring process definitely has some broken links and recruiters could certainly be a bit more responsive. After all, companies need good talent as much as talent needs employers!
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Technical Support Engineer at VMware
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 in Broomfield, CO (took 1+ week)
There are several phases:
1. Initial Phone Interview
2. Technical Phone Interview
3. In person interview with two managers
4. In person interview with two Technical Support Engineers
After this they will either make you an offer or say no thanks. The in person interviews are more about your personality than your skills. If you have made it this far then already know you have the technical ability or that you can be trained. Don't worry about studying anything at this point - be well rested and friendly. Wear a suit.
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Negotiation Details
You can negotiate. As with most locations once you start you can only expect small raises so make sure you negotiate to the level you want to be at. They are not going to accept a counter offer for $10k more than the initial. If the initial offer seems unfair or too low look elsewhere.
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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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Inside Sales Representative at VMware
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
VMware's interview process is pretty straight forward. They usually want you to meet with 2 managers & 2-3 people on the team doing the same role. You may look good on paper but they also want you to also fit in the VMware culture.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
it is phone interview
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware
Posted Nov 24, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 months)
The interviews were fairly intense and very technical for a marketing role. I was able to handle the questions because I have a technical background. In my opinion, they were testing mostly to see how you would answer the question and also for specific examples and solutions to their inquiries. I had one phone interview, 7 face to face 1:1 interviews (on one day), and then a couple of follow up interviews (phone and in person).
I met with almost every member of the cross functional team I would be working with, as well as, the GM of the group. Everyone was smart and asked god questions. Some were a lot more prepared than others for the interviews. There were a few people who were totally unprepared and the conversations were a waste of time.
In a nutshell, smart people, but not the people I would want to work with on a day to day basis. They came across as being very arrogant and living in a VMWare bubble. The GM was the biggest turnoff since he was totally unprepared for our conversation and tried to deflect his lack of reading my resume by asking questions that were suitable for an engineer. I was not impressed by him at all. In addition, the other "marketing" and biz dev folks I met were not the type of folks I would ever put in front of customers. They did give the impression of being business savvy.
While the team was smart and clearly confident in their technical knowledge, I think the general lack of business etiquette and social skills would bore me on a day to day basis.
The company was slow to respond about my interview schedule at first, then they moved very quickly. 7 interviews in one day is way too many. The HR person's follow up was good and she was generally responsive and helpful.
The salary "negotiation" was done up front and the compensation was competitive with other Director level roles in the valley.
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Reason for Declining
The people and corporate culture. The General Manager /Senior Director (J. Chen) was the biggest turn off... Napoleon complex to the 10th power. Suggestion to him: you're not always the smartest person in the room and you look like a bigger dork trying so hard to prove it. Also, put your iPad away when you are bringing on a senior level person to you team. Pay attention, focus and show some respect.
VMWare has great products, but the corporate culture is a major turnoff.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Senior Consultant at VMware
Posted Nov 28, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Munich (Germany) (took 2 weeks)
Manager of the group tried to do the interview in English to test language skills but could not speak English at all.
Interviewer acted in a way if this was the first interview, looked like he has done a 'training' with HR.
Extrem unproffesionell
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Reason for Declining
Management
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Intern at VMware
Posted Nov 19, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 2+ weeks)
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
Got the on-campus interview and have a nice experience with the tech recruiter. He walked through my project experiences and asked about my vision for career path, etc. Common questions and positive feedbacks.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Cambridge, MA (took a day)
Got a phone call from hiring manager who used to work with me. Set up an full-day onsite interview which includes a Ph.D work presentation from me and 1:1 interview with 7 other people. These 6 people are: a recruiter (so quite easy for me), hiring manager (also not bad), four Staff/Sr. Staff engineers and a Sr. Director. A lot of technical questions were asked, ranging from programming (C, Java, C++) to software engineering. Not a super hard interview but definitely not easy. People who interviewed me seemed to be very nice.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate a lot since the hiring manager worked with me before.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Technical Support Engineer at VMware
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took a day)
I got a call from HR manager. He was very friendly. When he heard that I don't have a valid work permit he politely refused myself as a candidate, because there are a lot of native citizens applying for this position. Nevertheless, I was able to get a lot of useful information from this interview. I found the competition rate for this positions, it was about 5 person per one position. Than we talked about the whole process . He said he would ask me simple technical questions based on my experience. If I passed that I would go to technical assessment, where another engineer asking more difficult and deep questions. He said also that they would like to know people's troubleshooting skills and how they are thinking. It means never say "I don't know", always try to answer the question some how.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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