VMware Software Engineer Interview Questions
50+ questions from real VMware Software Engineer interviews, reported by candidates.
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VMware conducted the first round via HireProDifficulty Level: HardRound 1: Online TestTime: 90 minsThere were 4 sections.Section 1 had 10 Aptitude questions for 15 mins.Se...
VMware Interview Experience
Total There were 3 rounds:Online Test(HirePro plateform)Technical RoundHR RoundRound 1RoundSection-1:It includesQA Aptitude questions related to profit loss, time and work...
Omnissa | MTS-3 | BLR
CSE B.Tech from Tier-1 Institution 3 years of experience in a product-based company. Application Process: I applied through LinkedIn and received a call from a recruiter. He asked for my interview...
VMware Interview Preparation
Here, you can find all the technical resources (articles, coding problems, subjective problems, video tutorials and interview experiences) that are helpful in preparing fo...
Table of ContentEasy LevelMedium LevelHard LevelEasy LevelWrite a program to reverse an array or stringA Boolean Matrix QuestionCount frequencies of all elements in array ...
VMware visited our campus to hire new graduates for their Propel Program. The CGPA cutoff was 7.Round 1Online MCQ round. This had 3 sections: aptitude, general programming...
Recently VMware visited our campus for full time and intern positions. There was a CGPA cut off of 7/10 for attending VMware’s hiring process.Round 1: Online TestThe onlin...
VMWare Interview | Set 1 (MTS-2)
VMWare interview for MTS-2 position.I Telephonic round 1. Given an array of strings. Find the maximum prefix among all the strings. Ans: First told about tries. ...
VMware | MTS 2 | Pune | offer
Hi , So recently I joined vmware as MTS2 at Pune office and I would like to share my interview experience back to community. So the position was a CPP/ windows...
Interview Process Initial Recruiter Contact Received an email and call from the recruiter asking if I was interested in a specific job ID for Omnissa. Round 0 (Hiring Manager) Interviewers: One interviewer Problem: Current Project...
VMWare | MTS2 | Bengaluru | Jan 2023 | Offer
Graduation: B.Tech. in IT from IIIT Allahabad Experience: 1 year 8 months Position: Technical Analyst at Goldman Sachs Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Date: January 25, 2023 I recently applied for an MTS-2 role in VMWare...
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Round 1 - 1. Add two linked lists and you cannot reverse a linked list and then add. 2. Detect cycle in undirected graph 3. Array of numbers given find minimum missing positive...
1st online coding round through hackerrank tambola game where a ticket is given and then a sequence of numbers are given and then we need to figure out if all corners are...
Please upvote to reach Max Audience \uD83D\uDE32\uD83D\uDE32\uD83D\uDE32 I was able to implement the same, But code was not compilable and Interviewer was in Hurry. :) Never MIND \uD83D\uDE32\uD83D\uDE32\uD83D\uDE32 ## Question: Client Server...
Given an array of integers, form three sub arrays s1, s2, s3 such that sum(s2) <= sum(s1)+sum(s3). Return the number of such subarrays that can be formed Eg) Input [2,3,5,7] Output 3 Explanation subarrays are s1 = [2],...
VMWare | USA | Phone Interview | Senior Software Engineer
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VMWare | Virtual Onsite(Senior MTS, USA)
Round 1: Write Java code for below, my approach was to build a graph and then compute the in degree of all the vertices then ask was to implement it in...
VMware | MTS-3 | Bengaluru | March 2022 [offer]
Position: MTS-3 at VMware Location: Bengaluru, India Date: March 2022 The interview process and format of each interview: Round 1 (Coding): - Group Anagrams - LIS - DP followed by Recursive solution Round 2 (Coding): -...
Vmware OA
Given a vector of binary strings of size n. Tell the minimum operations you should perform so that a column has only 1s in it. In one operation you can...
VMWare | MTS-3 | Apr 2022| Pune [Offer]
Applied through Linkedin. Technical round 1 Started with my brief introduction. https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-integer/ A variation of :https://leetcode.com/problems/find-greatest-common-divisor-of-array/ Java questions: Hashmap, Multithreading, ArrayList vs LinkedList, HashCode Equals. Write CRUD API structures for employee. SQL questions based on joins. Technical Round 2 Started...
What VMware Looks for in Software Engineer Interviews
VMware Software Engineer interviews are calibrated against the level and scope expected of the role. Across 50+ verified candidate reports on LeakCode, the consistent signals interviewers look for: clear problem decomposition before coding, explicit complexity reasoning, structured handling of edge cases, and the ability to articulate trade-offs between two reasonable approaches.
The discriminator between candidates who advance and candidates who do not is rarely the final correctness of the solution. It is the path to the solution: did you ask clarifying questions, did you state your approach before coding, did you handle edge cases without prompting, and did you communicate your reasoning throughout. Reports tagged "no hire" frequently cite a working solution with poor communication; reports tagged "strong hire" cite clear thinking even when the final solution was incomplete.
How To Use This Question Set
Real interview reports are a calibration tool, not a memorization target. Companies update their question pools every 2-4 months; memorizing exact problems risks misleading you when the interviewer uses a variant. The high-leverage use: identify the patterns that appear repeatedly in VMware Software Engineer reports, practice those patterns on similar (not identical) problems, and use the reports to understand the interviewer's typical follow-up depth.
Filter the questions below by round type, difficulty, and recency. Focus first on reports from the past 6-12 months; older reports may reference questions that have since rotated out of VMware's pool. Reports tagged with quantified difficulty (e.g., "medium-hard") are higher-signal than reports without difficulty tags.
Round-by-Round Expectations
VMware Software Engineer loops typically span 4-6 rounds across phone screens and on-site or virtual on-site interviews. The structure varies by company: some run 1 recruiter screen + 1 technical phone + 3-4 on-site rounds; others run 1 recruiter screen + 1 OA + 4-5 on-site rounds. The recruiter screen is logistics and culture-light; the technical phone screen is medium-difficulty coding; the on-site loop covers coding, system design (at L4+ levels), and behavioral rounds.
Each round is designed to surface a specific signal. Coding rounds: correctness, code quality, complexity reasoning, communication. System design rounds: requirements clarification, design judgment, operational thinking. Behavioral rounds: ownership scope, leadership, ambiguity tolerance, conflict navigation. Strong candidates explicitly hit each signal dimension out loud during the round; weak candidates focus only on solving the prompt.
Common Interview Mistakes At This Combination
Reports tagged "no hire" at VMware Software Engineer commonly cite: jumping into code without clarifying requirements, coding silently for 10+ minutes without verbalizing approach, missing edge cases (empty input, single element, very large input, overflow), and producing a working solution that the candidate cannot explain or refactor when probed. Strong candidates avoid these patterns by following a consistent template: clarify, verbalize approach, code with narration, test with examples.
Behavioral and design rounds have their own failure modes. Behavioral: stories that use "we" instead of "I" diluting individual signal, stories with no quantified outcome, defensiveness when probed about failure. Design: not asking clarifying questions, not stating requirements out loud, designing for a single server when the prompt clearly implies scale, ignoring operational concerns (deployment, monitoring, rollback). These show up in roughly half of VMware Software Engineer interview retrospectives on LeakCode.
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