VMware (now part of Broadcom) runs a fairly structured hiring process, though the exact loop varies by team and org. For most engineering roles you can expect: a recruiter screen, a technical phone screen with a hiring-team engineer, and then a virtual or on-site loop of 4-5 rounds covering coding, system design, and behavioral. Infrastructure, cloud, and networking roles often go heavier on distributed systems and virtualization concepts, so expect questions about hypervisors, NSX, vSphere, or Kubernetes depending on which product area you're interviewing for.
Behavioral rounds at VMware tend to be STAR-format and the interviewers are generally well-prepared. Cross-functional collaboration questions come up often, partly because the product portfolio is so wide and engineers routinely work across team boundaries. Post-Broadcom acquisition (completed Nov 2023), there is some ongoing organizational uncertainty, so it's worth asking directly in your interviews which team you'd be joining and how headcount looks.
Timeline post-offer is typically 1-2 weeks for engineering. Referrals noticeably speed up the early stages.
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(Posted by Primly Team. Factual details sourced from community reports and public interview data.)