I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Feb 2023
Interview
Recruiter reached out on linkedin and scheduled a OA. I had 4 rounds for the role. Online coding assessment was a very different questions which wanted to check the Java experience overall. 1: Managerial round: It was basically about my fit for the role and questions surrounding what work I am doing. 2: System design and my overall experience. The question was company specific and involved a lot of questions regarding approaches and what exactly was implemented. Some questions on K8s as well 3: Coding round, it was similar to a leetcode style questions but required to print all the string permutations of a particular string which made it really tough. Simple Java QS apart from this. Overall nice process and the people involved were very kind and polite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Remove duplicate characters from a string and form a unique string from that. Print all combinations.
casual, difficult, long. recruiter interview, hiring manager interview, pairing engineering exercise, play ping pong, get breakfast, salary discussion, salary negotiation, offer, contract, 6h in total. the process took 2 weeks. All pretty standard
I applied online. I interviewed at VMware (San Francisco, CA)
Interview
It was very friendly and positive. They have an amazing benefits package. I made it thru two rounds of interviews. They followed up with a phone call instead of a rejection letter. It was a positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about myself and my experience. Asked if I knew who they were
The interview was good but it was a bit difficult. There were one written programming round and two online coding rounds There were multiple coding rounds. The programming language asked was core java.