VMware·Software Engineer

VMware Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

IndiaPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through three interview rounds as a fresher, and things were moving along until the managerial round.

The manager ended up asking for someone with more experience than I had, and instead of ending things cleanly, I was asked to take the interviews again for a different team. That turned into a much longer commitment than what I expected.

Overall it stretched to seven rounds, and it started to feel like I was redoing work without new information driving the process forward. The interactions themselves weren’t memorable for being exceptionally positive or negative—more that the process design turned into a time sink. I didn’t get an offer.

By the end, the biggest reflection I had was that

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