VMware·Software Engineer

VMware Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an email from HR saying I’d been selected for a technical interview, framed as a collaborative coding exercise where they’d “test-drive” the solution together.

When the call started, though, it played out like a paired-coding challenge with the interviewer writing test cases and me responsible for implementing the functionality to satisfy them.

The interviewer began by saying they’d write everything in Java, even though I hadn’t worked with Java and it wasn’t reflected in my resume or the role description. I immediately mentioned the mismatch. I was told not to worry and that I could just explain what to do while they wrote the Java. That reassurance didn’t really help, because the whole hour turned into me trying to guess how to express the logic

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