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Senior Consultant at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Calgary, AB Jun 2011 – Reviewed Apr 29, 2013

Interview Details Fairly easy, but you need to know your stuff. We don't train just anybody.

Interview Question – None, I knew what I was doing.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Fairly easy. I asked I received and life is good.

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Technical Support Engineer at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 19, 2013

Interview Details It consisted of several interviews over the phone and in person highly technical in nature

Interview Question – What is PATA   Answer Question

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Global Account Manager at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mexico, Distrito Federal (Mexico) Dec 2010 – Reviewed May 15, 2013 New

Interview Details The initial contact is from recruitment in US then there´s a short process, 4 to 5 interviews most of them by phone, the most important is with the Country Manager.

Interview Question – What was your greatest accomplishment ?   Answer Question

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Enterprise Sales at VMware

No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 09, 2013

Interview Details Just chatted with VP Sales and then he looked me straight in the eye and said, "Why YOU?" I did not receive an offer for this job, and concluded that they are looking for dyed-in-the-wool enterprise sales people with ca. 10 years experience. I come from a non-traditional background and so should have had a better answer for that question. They need people who can hit the ground running immediately since they are up against Amazon and Google.

Interview Question – I was given a scenario in which the customer says that using public cloud is too risky, and why should they consider VMware as a cloud provider? The answer is that it's built on the same software stack and so the integration will be seamless.   Answer Question

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Technical Account Manager at VMware

No Offer – Reviewed May 13, 2013 New

Interview Details There was an initial recruiter-type screening, followed by a number of separate technical and business-process type interviews. Following these, there was several weeks of no activity, then an inperson interview process that included a total of 6 people in groups numbering 1,2,3.

After the interviews, I was told someone would get back to me within a week. After a month of no responses, I asked for a status and was again told someone would get back to me within a week. I have yet to get any response at all.

Interview Question – They peppered the interview with out-of-left-field type questions. They weren't crazy how would you move mount fiji type questions, but they were asked totally randomly. It left me feeling a little uneasy and unsure of the flow of the conversation   Answer Question

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Intern at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Bangalore (India) Apr 2013 – Reviewed May 03, 2013

Interview Details The Interview process consisted of four rounds, the first of which was a Aptitude and Technical written. There were about 10 aptitude questions and 20 technical questions with a maximum time of 75 min given to us to crack that. I started with the apti and it was not that difficult. Having the formulas and all the tricks and tips any one would have cracked it. It was all normal Time and Work problems, Water tank problems and Data analysis problems with some really good questions were you really had to think out of the box.Then there was technical questions. I had taken bit more time to solve apti so had to do the technical things very fast. Frankly speaking they asked everything which we would have studied OS,DBMS, SQL Queries, CO and obviously programming that of C and C++.. If we would have studied well in BE and remembered the formula most of them will crack it. Real Problem was in tracing the C++ codes but eventually that went well.

So we were waiting for our results and it came after 3 days, There was only three people selected and to my much surprise I was one of them. So next we had 3 rounds of interview 2 technical and 1 managerial. First technical he asked me about my interest which i obviously told networks so he asked me everything about networks tcp/ip, OSI,protocols functionalities etc. It went well and the round took almost 20 min.
Second round was also technical her they asked all about programming gave programs and asked to find the output etc. It was tricky. Then they asked much about SQL queries an OS concepts. Went pretty well. And at last he told me to write a string reverse program and his last question was an aptitude question. This round went for almost 1 hour.
So the last round was managerial. Here he asked general questions a lot n less technical. Guys always go through companies website. He asked me many questions about their products and all. He asked me my goals, challenges etc. It was my best round as I had impressed him pretty well. Always ask him questions when he asks DO you have any questions for me.. Finally I thanked him and my Interview was over. Results were in next few days and the very next day i was informed by the placement department that I got selected. It was a great feeling.
Thanks to our HOD, professors and obviously the placement dept. for their support.

Interview Question – difference between SQL and MS SQL server 2000   Answer Question

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Technical Support Engineer at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Broomfield, CO (US) Aug 2010 – Reviewed May 11, 2013

Interview Details 1-Initial phone screen with recruiter. About 20 intermediate difficulty questions covering a range of general system administration and technology topics.
2-Technical Phone Screen. About 90 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. Mostly Linux/Windows and general technology questions.
3-In person interview. Deeper situation based questions and manager interview.

Interview Question – Explain what makes Paravirtualization different than 'standard virtualization'   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – Recruiter handled negotiations between myself and hiring team. Asked for more twice and was turned down once.

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Analyst at VMware

Accepted Offer – Reviewed May 03, 2013

Interview Details Had short 10-15m phone screen, interview the next day with manager, team member and Associate on cross functional team. Lots of construction going on. Huuuge campus, wear comfortable shoes, and get there early, parking may be problematic, and no public transportation there YET, but I hear they're working on it. Generally hiring everyone as contractors for 1 YEAR- not direct hire, even if you know someone, seems to be where public tech co's are going. Interiors are very barebones, no frills. Cafeteria has good food though a bit pricey. Lots of changes going on as they keep buying companies, so everything's in constant flux. People seemed chill and nice, very personable, dress code was casual so dress one level above. Lots of hiring going on, but delays in decision making process bc HR process not very streamlined. another round of interviews awaits me.

Interview Question – What would your ideal manager be like? What would you need to do your best?   View Answer

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Territory Manager at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Cape Town (South Africa) Mar 2009 – Reviewed Apr 30, 2013

Interview Details I sumbitted my CV which went to the regional manager who passed it onto the recruitment agency responsible. I was interviewed by the recuiter telephonically. I then had a 1:1 interview with the regional manager. HI direct manager then interviewed me telephonically and my final interview was with HR. It wasn't a complicated process

Interview Question – How do you intend to change our business and what do you see in terms of our current business model needs reviewing?   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – There wasn't room to negotiate at all - the regional manager insisted on my salary slips and the offer was 15% over an above what I was already earning.

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Intern at VMware

Accepted Offer – Interviewed on Palo Alto, CA (US) Jan 2013 – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013

Interview Details It was long and pretty much a nightmare. I only ever had to interview once and it was a pretty intense interview, but getting in touch with the right people afterwards was challenging. You can tell there is a bit of a lack of communication between the different groups at vmware.

Interview Question – I do not really remember a lot of the questions, but almost everything I did iteratively had to be redone recursively and vice versa   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – The offer was kind of to good to have to negotiate anything

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