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VMware Member of Technical Staff Interview
Posted Oct 10, 2009 2009-10-10 21:18 PDT
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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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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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