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Updated Feb 1, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Great hiring process! Interviewers were friendly and gave enough room to express my thoughts.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and 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.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Jul 29, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
Phone interview consisted of simple algorithm test for finding permutations. Onsite interview was all day and had do 5, 45-minute interviews. Each of these was a relatively straightforward textbook algorithm question as well as more high-level conceptual questions about operating systems. It was definitely very useful to know some basic facts about trees, lists, graphs, and hash tables, but nothing additional particularly needed.
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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 Background Check.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Jul 24, 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 Dec 2009 in Cambridge, MA (took a day)
As a former intern, there was no strict interviewing process. As a result of my internship project and presentation, before I completed my internship, an engineering manager extended an offer for full time employment upon graduation. After expressing interest in that verbal offer, I was told that a recruiter would be in touch with a written offer once some paperwork was completed.
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Negotiation Details
I was able to negotiate my base salary (by ~5%), but not my benefits. As benefits are fixed across the organization based on seniority, there was no wiggle room there (other than a verbal "if you really want extra time off, you can just take off an extra week or two each year unpaid as long as you give me enough warning").
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2+ weeks)
2 Phone interviews followed by 4 onsite interviews. Onsite interviewers were not so professional and some of them did not even had a clue how to conduct interview. It was more like a one way communication.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Oct 15, 2009
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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 Mar 2008 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)
A recruited contacted me for a position with a specific team looking to fill a spot. Had a phone interview, then got flown to CA for a round of in person 1:1 interviews. Very algorithm based, problem solving, seeing if you understand how to code something. Very standard.
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Negotiation Details
I was able to negotiate. Compared their offer to another offer, with justification for the gap.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Oct 10, 2009
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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 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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Negotiation Details
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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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted May 6, 2009
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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 Jul 2007 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
I submitted my resume. The recruiter got in touch with me and scheduled a phone interview.
The interviewer asked about all my previous projects, asked a few questions.
He asked how the interrupts are handled in linux kernel (Top half/bottom half details), differences
between various synchronization methods in linux kernel, asked me to wrote some C code reversing
a string. The interview was good. But I did not hear back.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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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 Oct 2007 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
I hope that this will come in useful and one day the hiring freeze will be lifted! I don't remember much about the phone interview, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
My interview experience was very positive. I met directly with the engineers I would be working with. I got the usual rounds of basic engineering and virtualisation questions, but I felt like when it became clear that I was doing OK with them we moved into discussion about my grad school research and some of the problems and challenges they were working on. Overall, the interviews felt more like discussions than harsh grilling.
I appreciated this because I got to see these were the type of engineers I would like to work with on a daily basis.
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Negotiation Details
I was relocating from overseas, and they were very accommodating, upping the relocation bonus when it became clear it wasn't going to cover a lot of my costs. I didn't really negotiate on salary as I felt it was a very fair offer.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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