I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2018
Interview
I interviewed for the Propel Program in July 2018. The interview lasted a day long, each of the four interviews lasting 45 minutes.
The recruiters were very friendly and the interviewers were all helpful
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical details from resume
A Scheduling problem using binary search
Write code for First Fit and Best fit memory allocation algorithms
Python equivalent for malloc and calloc
Remove a node from linked list (given node itself)
Difference between merge sort and quick sort
Which sorting algorithm will you use if you have a definite space of memory which is less than twice the size of given array (quick sort as it's in place)
Backend concepts
Design principles
Programming paradigms
All answers required time and space complexity optimization
It was a frontend interview on hackerrank platform. There was three screens for html, css and JavaScript, asked to create a navigation component. HR informed me that it was going to be a data structures round with no language restriction. But in interview I found out it was a core skills round instead.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (San Jose, CA) in Oct 2022
Interview
Hikerank , BQ and microservice system. Mainly focus on the understanding of data strcuture, several BQ questions in the multi-working, few questions in how to desgin microservice system. Eg, how do you choose the fist partition of microservice
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at VMware
Interview
Had an intro chat, next was a hiring manager round, then there will be coding rounds related to your role. Standard procedure as other companies, they have various roles both remote and from office.