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Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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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 2 weeks)
2 rounds of telephonic
1 round online
Onsite 1:1
Interview Questions
Questions pertaining to resume
Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
Helpful Interview?
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No
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
I was referred by one of my friend in this group.
The manger seems interested in what I have done in my phd study.
After briefly discussed with him about my projects, he started to ask
me general technical questions. I have answered some of them including
how to implement a semaphore, spinlock, read write lock, interrupt, etc.
I guess I was rejected.
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Dec 5, 2011
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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 Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)
it is phone interview
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
Yes |
No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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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 Sep 2011 (took a day)
Got the on-campus interview and have a nice experience with the tech recruiter. He walked through my project experiences and asked about my vision for career path, etc. Common questions and positive feedbacks.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
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Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Jul 26, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 6 weeks)
- Recruiter screening (Week 1)
- Phone interview screen by hiring manager (Week 2)
- Phone interview screen by Senior Engineer - Technical Round (Week 3)
- In person interview with 10 people (Week 4)
- Salary and package negotiation (Week 5)
Signed NDA. Can't talk about the questions and other details
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Multiple offers. Decided to go with a company where I got a great package.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 2 months)
I had quite a nightmare dealing with this company. Their HR seems very incompetent.
I was initially put in contact with their HR in Ireland. They were very nice and professional. Then, after speaking with a couple of folks there, I was routed to their HR in California. I was scheduled for an interview in which the interviewer felt more like chatting than interviewing. He said that I could ask him whatever I wanted. So, we had a casual conversation (about VMware and what it is like to work there) for 30 minutes after which he indicated that the next round of phone interviews would be more technical and that I should get ready for this.
Now, it's been nearly two months since I had my first interview and requests to HR to get back to me have fallen on deaf ears. At this point, I'm sure that I don't want to work for this company even if they do move the process forward. If they treat you like this before you join, what happens afterward?
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
I decided it made more sense to pursue other opportunities than waste my time chasing this one down. I believe that if you invest loads of your time, it should be valued. Hey, this is a two-way street - respect my time and I'll respect yours.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Jul 13, 2011
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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 Jul 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 months)
Terrible process. Although they were nice enough to accommodate some of my scheduling issues, it was handled awfully. For example, after two phone screen interviews in mid-April that they were flying me out for an onsite interview, but due to significant screw-ups on their part (and a 3 week period when I was on vacation), it didn't happen till mid-July.
The interview scheduling itself was quite awful. Thrice, they asked me for dates that I could fly to California. Twice, those dates went by without any contact from them (even though I told them I had another offer, and they assured me they would hurry up). The third time, they emailed me the morning before and said I was going to be booked on a flight the next day! And then after I reminded them at 9 PM that night that I still didn't have tickets for my flight the next morning, they sent them to me about half an hour before midnight. I blame this, in part, for not having enough time to prepare.
The interview itself was OK, although I don't think I did well enough to get an offer. One interviewer was openly hostile towards me because he saw my major on my resume and immediately assumed that I was not qualified (He actually said the words "Your major is XXX. Why have you even applied for THIS job?"). They assured me a result very quickly, within a day or two, since I had to tell the other company that made me an offer to wait. It's been 3 days now, and no reply. I've pretty much given up hope; even if they do make me an offer, I'm not sure I want to work here
Interview Questions
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Apr 13, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 weeks)
Initial communication consisted of discussions with a recruiter followed by a phone screen with the hiring manger. Interview was all-day at the VMware campus in Palo Alto. It consisted of one-on-one meetings with a number of engineers of various ranks from within the group, as well as the hiring manager and another group manager. The interviews focused on programming questions, but there were also systems design questions. Recruiter followed up in a couple of days following meeting with the interview team.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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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 Feb 2011 (took a day)
These guys are very very specific. Don't surprise if interviewer ask question like "What is the name of dll that has ... blah blah fxn ....".
Conclusion: They are not going to test your smartness but will test your memory.
1. Bad for folks who like challanges
2. Good for guys who are ok with repeated work and confined knowledge.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
Software Engineer at VMware
Posted Mar 9, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took a day)
Had two round of phone screens. Then was brought onsite. Met 6 people in total. Questions cover data structure, algorithms, behavior, brain teaser, distributed systems, database, design pattern, networks, and etc.
1. Given a two dimensional array of characters, provide an implementation
which would print out the characters in the array in a spiral manner.
2. Write a regular expression pattern to match "525", "528", and "530" to
"599" exclusively.
Interview Questions
which would print out the characters in the array in a spiral manner.
"599" exclusively.
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
Helpful Interview?
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No
Inappropriate?
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