VMware Interview Questions & Reviews

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

Negotiation Details – Did not negotiate

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 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 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.

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

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

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.