VMware Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
22+ questions from real VMware Software Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the VMware Phone Screen round test?
The VMware phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Software Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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VMware Software Engineer Phone Screen Questions
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...
VMWare
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...
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...
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 | MTS-3 | Bangalore | March 2022 | Offer
Interviewed for the TKG team ## Round 1 - Questions on work experience. - Questions related to kubernetes architecture. - Was given a code snippet from kubernetes codebase, and asked to reverse engineer and...
VMware | MTS 3 | Bengaluru, India | Apr 2022 [Reject]
YOE: 5 VC Round 1 Coding: 1. Find product of all elements except self for each index in a given array. 2. Given a grid, find max score you can get if you start...
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...
VMWARE | MTS-1 | 2022
Hi All, I recently interviewed at VMWare for MTS-1 role and I had 4 tech + 1 Managerial rounds. All virtual rounds happened over a 2 day period. You can use any...
VMWare | USA | Phone Interview | Senior Software Engineer
Please define a Custom Datastructure to represent non-negative integers of unlimited length and implement "add" operation for two instances of this type. "1234" + "567" = "1801" "99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999998888888888888888 8888888888888888888888888888888877777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777"+"1" = "99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999998888888888888888 8888888888888888888888888888888877777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777778"...
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...
Recruiter contacted me in first week of May through email. Round 1 : coding round 1) Validate IPV4 2) Kadanes algorithm This round went well except for a small mistake in...
Vmware || Senior Member of Technical Staff || Bengaluru || Interview experience
Location: B\'lore On: July 2021 Round1: Q1: Find a number in BST, had to complete the method. Q2: Maintain top \'K\' elements for stream of coming numbers Extension: Maintain top K percentile for stream of...
VMware | SMTS | Sep 2021
Round 1: DSA & problem solving code pair Ques1 : Middle of linklist using recursion Ques2 : Find subtree in binary tree Ques3: Find 18th smallest element from array Ques4: Print even and odd...
VMware Interview Experience for MTS-1 with 1yr expYear Of Exp: 1 yrPrevious Company: Product based StartupProfile: Software EngineerApply Mode: Referal from LinkedInDate o...
Round 1: Client: Dish, Vodaphone Question 1: /* Input in json format is given as below: [{ "id":"P1", "dependency":["P2", "P3"] }, { "id":"P2", "dependency":["P3"] }, { "id":"P3", "dependency":[...
I was contacted by recruiter over linkedin for Senior Lead Software Engineer for Banglore location. I asked them for preparation time as I had holidays planned too. It took around...
I appeared for the interview for the Carbon Black division under VMware in October 2020. The process was virtual. I had 3 technical rounds:Round 1:Explain the switch betwe...
VMware | SWE | Bangalore | May 2020 [Reject]
YOE: 1.8 I recieved a call from VM-Ware few days back and interview was scheduled for next day. Round 1: https://leetcode.com/problems/max-area-of-island/ Solution do simple DFS and keep track of maximum island encountered. ...
VMware | Phone | Validate JSON
Position: New Grad Validate a json and return true or false. Example: Input: { "glossary":{ "title":"exampleglossary", "GlossDiv":{ "title":"S", "GlossList":{ "GlossEntry":{ "ID":"SGML", "SortAs":"SGML", "GlossTerm":"StandardGeneralizedMarkupLanguage", "Acronym":"SGML", "Abbrev":"ISO8879:1986", "GlossDef":{ "para":"Ameta-markuplanguage,usedtocreatemarkuplanguagessuchasDocBook.", "GlossSeeAlso":[...
What to Expect in the VMware Phone Screen Round
The VMware Software Engineer Phone Screen round has a specific calibration purpose distinct from other rounds in the loop. Across 22+ verified reports on LeakCode for this exact round type, the consistent expectations: clear scoping of the problem before diving into a solution, explicit reasoning about complexity, structured handling of edge cases, and the ability to discuss trade-offs between two reasonable approaches.
Reports tagged with the Phone Screen round at VMware show recurring patterns in difficulty and topic distribution. The Phone Screen round is typically 45-60 minutes; the interviewer is calibrated against a specific rubric. The discriminator between candidates who advance and candidates who do not is rarely the final correctness of the answer. It is the path: did you clarify, did you verbalize your approach, did you handle edge cases, and did you communicate throughout.
How To Prepare for This Specific Round
Filter the questions below to the most recent reports (past 6-12 months). Questions tagged for this exact round type from this exact company at this exact role level are the highest-signal data available. Older reports may reference questions that have since rotated out of the company's pool.
Practice 4-6 representative problems from this set under timed conditions. The goal is not memorization (companies rotate questions); the goal is to internalize the patterns the interviewer typically reaches for and the depth of follow-up to expect. Reports on LeakCode also tag the typical follow-up depth at this round type, which is the discriminating signal between hire and no-hire calibration.
Phone Screen Round Timing and Format
The Phone Screen round at VMware typically runs 45-60 minutes. Use the first 2-3 minutes to clarify requirements; you should never start coding or designing without verifying the input/output format, constraints, and edge cases out loud. Use the next 5-7 minutes to verbalize your approach before writing any code. The middle 20-30 minutes are implementation. Reserve the final 10 minutes for testing with concrete examples and discussing optimization or trade-offs.
Time budget discipline is one of the most reliable senior-vs-junior discriminators in this round. Strong candidates verbalize where they are in their budget out loud ("I've used about 20 minutes, I have 15 minutes left for testing and one optimization"). This signals engineering maturity to the interviewer and creates positive feedback they can capture in writing.
Common Failure Modes in This Round
Reports tagged "no hire" at VMware Software Engineer Phone Screen commonly cite: coding silently without verbalizing approach, jumping to implementation before clarifying requirements, missing edge cases (empty input, single element, very large input), producing working code that the candidate cannot refactor when asked, and failing to test their solution with concrete examples before declaring done.
The single most predictive failure mode in 2025-2026 reports: not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers at all FAANG companies are explicitly trained to weight this dimension. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's notes.
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