I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at VMware in Feb 2010
Interview
Had two round of phone screens. Then was brought onsite. Met 6 people in total. Questions cover data structure, algorithms, behavior, brain teaser, distributed systems, database, design pattern, networks, and etc.
1. Given a two dimensional array of characters, provide an implementation
which would print out the characters in the array in a spiral manner.
2. Write a regular expression pattern to match "525", "528", and "530" to
"599" exclusively.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a two dimensional array of characters, provide an implementation
which would print out the characters in the array in a spiral manner.
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.
