The process took 1 day. I interviewed at VMware (Cambridge, MA) in June 2011
Interview
Got a phone call from hiring manager who used to work with me. Set up an full-day onsite interview which includes a Ph.D work presentation from me and 1:1 interview with 7 other people. These 6 people are: a recruiter (so quite easy for me), hiring manager (also not bad), four Staff/Sr. Staff engineers and a Sr. Director. A lot of technical questions were asked, ranging from programming (C, Java, C++) to software engineering. Not a super hard interview but definitely not easy. People who interviewed me seemed to be very nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw on whiteboard a box presenting a system, a few inputs and a few outputs. Possible two ways of implementing the box: one is to multithread per input, one is to multithread by functions/modules, and run fixed # of threads per function/module and process inputs in a pipeline fashion. Compare the pros and cons of these two implementations.
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.