Senior Security Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at VMware with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Security Engineer roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at VMware overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at VMware as a Senior Security Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Drug test: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Presentation: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at VMware
Interview
A process of 5 remote interviews with several people distributed geographically around the world. A face-to-face interview. They seemed that they do not know what they are looking for from a technical perspective. Very poor experience and a huge waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Either general abstract security questions, that you do not even have to be a security engineer to know the answers, i.e. What TLS stands for ?
- Or very specific questions from their daily tasks they feel comfortable of asking.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Sep 2013
Interview
I gave them a business card at BlackHat security conference to win some software.
Recruiter LinkedIn ping
I responded via LinkedIn and set up a call
Recruiter call
Technical phone screen
On-site 7 interview day
Team-fit phone call
Offer-counter-final offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was shown code and asked to find the security issues in it