VMware Senior QA Engineer interview questions

Round 1 Find last 10 lines in a file in most optimized way. Find prime numbers till 1000 numbers And in most optimized way. Gold bar puzzle to make 7 pieces and need to give it to worker in 7 days with minimum cut. Wrong labels puzzles. A B A+B worngly labeled .find correct label in one way. TCs for landline phone. Round 2 Circular linked list. Find a loop in linked list and can go to any other element outside loop. Making triangles from equilateral triangle exposed side and how many triangles will be made for n iterations. Round 3 Implement queue using stacks. Tell Process block elements

- The shorlisting was done based on the details provided in the Linked in . - The first round was a written test where you had to clear the programming test. The program was from Hacker earth. - If you clear the programming round then you were called for a face to face technical round of interview, - 1st round : - Manual testing concepts. - Automation testing concepts. - Puzzles / Brain teaser . - Simple program on the Java. - 2nd round : - Implement Queue. - Concepts of Linked List. - Programming on strnigs. - 3rd Round : - Linked List - Automation testing and details of the project - Program about linkedlist. ( Find middle element in one pass) . Find the duplicate element in the list. - 4th Round : - 5 programming questions. - Puzzles. As it was a drive , there was no HR round and we were told we would be given our feedback.