Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at VMware with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 36 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at VMware overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at VMware as a Senior Software Engineer according to 36 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 25%
Presentation: 14%
Group panel interview: 10%
Skills test: 6%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Bengaluru) in Oct 2018
Interview
HR called for an interview without sharing JD & interview process . 4 people turned up and they conducted face 2 face for all 15 mins each and selected none. seems its just a formality the position is already closed with an internal referral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. difference between jdbc and hibernate
2. is java pass by value or pass by reference
3. oops concepts
Had a call with the hiring manager who only seemed interested in why I was leaving my previous job and not what I have been working on or my skillset. At the end of the call I didn't seem like that was a good impression and decided not to pursue.
Got the coding round and got rejected though all test cases passed. The recruiter sent a hacker rank directly. Got everything executed but still sent a rejection since they got another candidate for the position
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank questions: String manipulation, what is a middleware
in total i had 3 rounds, first round was coding which was easy problems. next two rounds were technical interviews which were medium to hard and went in depth C++ concepts.