OK, so I have seen this question and discussion A LOT on VMWare's site as well as other sites with basically the same answer(s).
I am running Workstation Pro v15 under Windows 10 Ent v1809 as the host and running or trying to run a fresh install of MAC OSx 10.14.2 as a guest.
I am fairly certain it's not the guest as when I switch to NATting mode, I'm able to ping by DNS resolution. However not true when pinging from a Bridged network mode. The guest does get an IP address no matter what mode I use and the DNS has been set statically yo Cloudflare as well as Google and my local router and modem. I have uninstalled (resetting to defaults) the internal network configuration settings for VMWare as well as creating a new VMNetCfg, still no Bueno.
The interesting thing is that I can ping ALL IP addresses when I am using Bridging mode, just cannot do Name Resolution.