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Updated May 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Member of Technical Staff Intern at VMware
Posted May 28, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed May 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 5 days)
Its a pretty straight forward interview process. I interviewed for the Intern position @VMware.
2 phone screens based on algorithms, java and problem solving.
Interviewers were very cool and allowed me to cleanly illustrate my thought process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Technical Marketing Manager at VMware
Posted May 19, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 months)
The interview process took so long that I thought I was out of the running. Interviewers were both professional and welcoming in their demeanor.
Had one phone interview, then 5 in-person interviews. Oddly, after I was hired, those chosen to interview me were not necessarily people I would interact with.
Advice: Do not be put off by the length of time the interview process takes; you may still be among the top picks. Also, if you do not get chosen, ask for referrals to hiring managers for other open positions within the company--you may not be a fit for the position you applied for, but you may be perfect for another. Use your previous interviewer's name as a referral when you call the next hiring manager.
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Negotiate your starting salary carefully because you will only very slowly get increases over time. Your initial salary is very important.
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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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Member of Technical Staff II at VMware
Posted May 17, 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 Apr 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4+ weeks)
First was a general chat with the recruiter, where we exchanged details about my experience/interests and the skills they were looking for. This was followed by 3 phone interviews and an onsite round of 7 interviews (including 1 chat with the recruiter/HR).
I was really impressed with how courteous and professional everyone was. The team was also very accommodative of the fact that I had 2 other offers in hand and speed-ed up the entire process as much as they could!
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Negotiation Details
The HR was aware of the details of 2 other offers I had at hand and hence made a very competitive initial offer. I did not want to negotiate further.
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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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Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Posted May 4, 2012 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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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 a day)
Was referred by a friend for this position. The manager called me first for a telephonic interview. The had done research in grad school which aligned with the requirements for this position. The manager asked few questions about my research and explained what they do and what they expect. Things went well and was called onsite in a week.
My first interview was with a staff engineer. He was really good, asked really interlligent questions and helped me when needed. It went really well. The second interviewer asked questions on my research and some on OS frundamentals. And then, I had to interview with an arrogant engineer after lunch. He dint know a damm about my research and or experience. The interviewer and me worked in the same city back in India a few years back, so he started asking about projects that company worked on (and not me). He was just too arrogant. I refused to answer questions after a point even though I thought i knew.
So expect for this one interview, others went fine. But as usually, the company never contacted me back. When I called the recruiter, he said the mgr and team was busy..
So to summarize, from what I have heard and experienced, vmware looks for ppl with specific expertise only. It is not a place u can learn new things, u just develop based on your existing knowledge.
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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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Technical Marketing Manager at VMware
Posted May 8, 2012
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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 Jan 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
phone interview. in-person interview.
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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 May 1, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
Find the convergence point of 2 linked list
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Ecosystem Engineering Infrastructure - UI Developer at VMware
Posted Apr 15, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 5 days)
I was contacted by a recruiter who found me on LinkedIn. I was setup for an interview with the hiring manager. I was told the that interview would be to learn more about the position and my current and past positions. If that interview went well the second one would be a java skills test (were I would find mistakes and efficiency issues for 3 questions) on WebEx, and for the third interview they would fly me in for an in-person interview with a panel.
That was not the case however. The hiring manager (first interview) was the one who administered the java skills test via WebEx. This caused a delay because I had called into the conference call meeting number, and not the WebEx portion. When in fact I was to wait for the hiring manager to call me directly and log into the WebEx. This confusion rattled my nerves and for the first question i was really nervous and stuttered my way through it. The hiring manager had to coax me to the right answer. On the second and third questions I finally got more comfortable and was able to answer them correctly.
The second interview was with what would have been a peer. In it I was asked questions about best practices, hypothetical solutions to programming challenges and previous projects positions I had worked on and what role I played in them.
Unfortunately that's where all communication stopped. I received no response to my thank you letter, or one saying they were no longer interested, or even that the position was filled. I felt the recruiter was a bit clueless on the interview process/company and wasn't able to answer any of my questions.
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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 Apr 13, 2012
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3.0
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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 6 weeks)
Not a super hard interview, but definitely not easy. I had 3 phone screens followed by 6 1-on-1 interviews onsite. Luckily, the recruiter I worked with was very helpful. Had a difficult time communicating with one interviewer(both on the phone and onsite), but in general everybody was extremely professional. As for the answers to the questions, they aren't as important as your approach to the problem. The interviewers generally tend to push you in the right direction if they think you are off track .
Questions mostly focussed on string manipulations, scalability, multithreading, design patterns, and data structures. Definitely brush up on the basic data structures.
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I didn't negotiate much as the initial offer was pretty good. If they think you're good, they will make a matching offer.
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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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Product Manager at VMware
Posted Apr 4, 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 Mar 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 weeks)
It was a very open conversation. In the middle there were some specific questions around marketing and product management.
I had two rounds with Group Product Managers.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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4.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Overall I had 5 phone interviews that took about 6 hours and 5 one-on-one and group interviews On site that took about 5 hours
I was contacted by a recruiter after about a month after submitting an application online. The recruiter was extremely nice and incredibly helpful. The inital recruiter screening went well and I was told it would be progressing.
I was contacted a couple of days later by one of the senior guys on the team. It was a fun discussion about goals, ambitions, history, experience and expectations. The call lasted about an hour.
I then had a further thee phone interviews over the coming week, including a pair programming technical test with an highly skilled engineer from outside the team.I really enjoyed the banter and the attitude from everyone, it was exactly the right mix of knowledge, skill work ethic and fun.
The onsite interviews were excellent fun, I met with all the senior players, including my bosses, bosses, boss. There was a lot of white board drawing, solutions questions & scalability questions. Everyone was extremely nice and engaging, I actually enjoyed myself and never once felt out of place or out of my league. The interviews were typically 45m to an hour each, some were group chats, others were 1:1
I left feeling excited and highly motivated. It was a very pleasant experience.I liked everyone I met.
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Negotiation Details
I negotiated a higher salary and position using some soft skills. Some good advice is to not ask for anything directly, steer the conversation in that direction without being direct. If you demand something, its more likely to be rejected.
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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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