I interviewed for a senior engineering manager role at VMWare. The panel (a staff engineer) was not prepared and could not articulate the questions correctly. There were random questions and no interest to explore the skills in detail. They are interested to note down what is being said (no eye contact) rather than having a proper conversation (very irritating). They seem like having a target of rejecting 99 people and taking the one who comes at 100); the interview panel member was not able to answer a question asked to him towards the end of the interview..

There was an exploratory call and a call with Senior Director. The interview itself went fine, however, the recruitment team is pathetic. No followup call from the recruitment team nor an update/feedback call. I had to email them a couple of times to get the following answer - "there was an internal candidate and was offered the position"