The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
Overall I had 5 phone interviews that took about 6 hours and 5 one-on-one and group interviews On site that took about 5 hours
I was contacted by a recruiter after about a month after submitting an application online. The recruiter was extremely nice and incredibly helpful. The inital recruiter screening went well and I was told it would be progressing.
I was contacted a couple of days later by one of the senior guys on the team. It was a fun discussion about goals, ambitions, history, experience and expectations. The call lasted about an hour.
I then had a further thee phone interviews over the coming week, including a pair programming technical test with an highly skilled engineer from outside the team.I really enjoyed the banter and the attitude from everyone, it was exactly the right mix of knowledge, skill work ethic and fun.
The onsite interviews were excellent fun, I met with all the senior players, including my bosses, bosses, boss. There was a lot of white board drawing, solutions questions & scalability questions. Everyone was extremely nice and engaging, I actually enjoyed myself and never once felt out of place or out of my league. The interviews were typically 45m to an hour each, some were group chats, others were 1:1
I left feeling excited and highly motivated. It was a very pleasant experience.I liked everyone I met.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What bottleneck challenges do you think we would face is this architecture was scaled up x50,000
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.