I applied through other source. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2008
Interview
It took 3 months to go from my first email to a VMware recruiter to getting an offer. I interviewed with three different teams. Seems like if they think you are good but don't have the amount of experience that the group you are interviewing with needs, then the recruiter tries to find you a different group within the company where your experience matches what the group needs. I really liked the recruiters that I worked with, although the last of the three that I spoke with was hard to get hold of sometimes.
VMware's process for interviewing developers with less than 2 or 3 years of experience was certainly better than at Google, whose process takes even longer, and where software developers don't interview to enter a specific team at Google, they just interview for Google. Unlike VMware, Google recruiters didn't seem to be able to know whether you were likely to get a job or not based on your interviews.
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Question 1
Write the solution to the single writer, multiple reader problem
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.