VMware·Software Engineer

VMware Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

First, I did a short phone screen where the hiring manager asked me to talk through my background and then we moved into technical content.

The technical part leaned into coding and Data Structures & Algorithms, and the whole thing was framed around real problem-solving rather than pure trivia.

After that, I had a technical interview scheduled where I solved problems in an IDE while sharing my screen and narrating my thought process. Alongside that coding round, I also had a more conversational discussion about my previous experience, where the interviewer wanted to understand how I’d approached past projects and what I learned from them.

Even though the format was fairly standard—phone screen followed by technical rounds—I

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