Process started off with an email from HR informing me I was selected for a technical interview. The email said "...1-hour interview which will be a collaborative coding exercise, where we'll test-drive our solution". This was very misleading as the actual interview was a paired-coding challenge. The interviewer started off saying he would write test cases in Java and I would need to create the functionality to return the correct value for his tests. I have not worked with Java (nor is it mentioned in my resume or the job description I applied to). I immediately say "Hey I don't have any experience with Java". He says, "great, you don't need to know it, just tell me what to do and I'll write it". You see where this is going... Smash cut to an hour of different versions of this: Me: "Ok, I would loop the inputs and checking the array and appending the input if it isn't in the array" Interviewer: "You can't do that in Java" Me: "Ok how would I do that in Java?" Interviewer: "...Well tell me another way you would do this?" So I was left to guess as to how you would do something in Java the whole time. At the end of the interview, he informed me that he hadn't even looked at my resume. Thankfully I was turned off of VMware after he mentioned that they do paired coding.