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Member of Technical Staff III at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 20, 2013

Interview Details – Now: inconsistent. you could get hired on a single phone call or go through a 14 people round. Depends on who refers you

Interview Question – Algorithms   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Did not negotiate

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Software QA Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed Mar 15, 2013

Interview Details – Screening phone interview, one programming question and a lot of discussion about networking concept. On site interview also networking concept questions and few coding questions, and some test case discussion.

Interview Question – Nothing was unexpected if you have a good networking fundamentals.   Answer Question

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Senior Software Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA Jan 2009 – Reviewed Mar 13, 2013

Interview Details – This was an interview experience I had back in 2005. 1 phone screen with VMWare's HR recruiter, followed by 1 phone technical interview with a senior engineer, what I am working on now, why I want to leave my current company, etc. Then got down to business, Java questions: Memory Model, volatile, synchronized semantics.

Invited back to half-day onsite interview the following week. Tough 4.5 hours: each round was with a very senior member of the engineering team each with their own areas of expertise. C++ deep dive: struct vs class, virtual destructors, multiple inheritance, polymorphism, detecting memory leaks, he gave me some code and asked me if there's a bug in there. Algorithms deep dive: reverse a linked-list, find largest sub-sequence of an array and comment on Big-O of my implementation. XML deep dive: write XSLT code to do some XML parsing, XML Schema questions.

Invited back again the following week for onsite with engineering manager and director.

Interview Question – Why would you want to have a Virtual Destructor in C++   Answer Question

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QA Manager at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 6, 2013

Interview Details – Multi layer interview with technical and management team.

Negotiation Details – poorly managed and I almost took another offer as the offer letter took weeks to be deliverd.

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QA Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in San Jose, CA Feb 2013 – Reviewed Mar 3, 2013

Interview Details – First the Hr called up and told abt the position and after a week there was a technical Phone Interview.

Interview Question – Comparing two binary trees by values   Answer Question

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QA Engineer at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA Aug 2009 – Reviewed Mar 8, 2013

Interview Details – Initial phone screen was on basic Java . Then gave us a chess problem to solve . Once that was solved and they were happy with the solution, I was called onsite .
4 people interviewed me and took around 2 months to get hired after all the paper work was done.

Interview Question – Questions were directed at my intern experience and coding skills.   Answer Question

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Member of Technical Staff Software Engineer at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed Feb 27, 2013

Interview Details – Contacted by the recruiter, and talked for about one hour. The recruiter then arranged a technical phone screen with the hiring manager. The technical screening consists of some c++/ood questions and some coding questions. We use the online shared session for the coding. Couple daysa after the screening I was informed that offer has went out to other candidates

Interview Question – I was asked some technical questions on the first phone call by the recruiter, which I didn't expect.   Answer Question

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Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Feb 10, 2013

Interview Details – First round is usually a Phone interview. After that there is usually 3-4 rounds of technical interviews by various members of the team. Most rounds involve answering various technical questions and then writing some pseudo code or actual code. After those rounds you will be asked to wait for 2-3 days to know the result.
If successful, HR will talk numbers.

Interview Question – This was for a Web team w/in VMware. One of them asked about writing an algorithm that de-duplicates contacts in an address book. And then asked to improve the algorithm   Answer Question

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Solutions Architect at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Palo Alto, CA Feb 2010 – Reviewed Feb 5, 2013

Interview Details – Typical hiring process. Nothing major, beside they tell you want you want to hear when asking questions. Once in the role, different story.

Interview Question – nothing   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – There was NO negotiation. This is VMware, they offer and if you don't take the offer, they move one. You are just a number.

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Intern at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed Feb 4, 2013

Interview Details – HR called me to make appointment. Then an engineer called again who asked some background questions and coding question

Interview Question – how to implement atomic semaphore (dekker's algorithm )   Answer Question

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