I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Oct 2020
Interview
It was pretty straight forward and thorough. Nothing was asked outside the scope of the job. I was asked questions based on my experience . The projects that I have worked on, questions on kubernetes, docker, terraform and AWS.
5 rounds initial round was HR screening round which followed by 4 more rounds
1. Architect round , 2: director , 3: system design 4: senior manager
3 rounds were good but the final round gentleman was very rude , gender biased questions
Worst was No response from HR for 2 weeks . If a candidate has spent around 5 hours , he deserves to know the outcome .
After 2 week of wait they came back saying they are interviewing more people and after a month they updated the career site with not selected . No emails . Feel like waste of time
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
managerial skills
scenario based
microservice and kubernetes
why should we hire you
system design : design a rental system
Apart from money why are u looking for change
will you be able to work for 12 hours
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Bengaluru) in Feb 2021
Interview
The entire process took a little more than a month to complete and it was very well coordinated. The HR sent me an initial note with a few questions focused around testing my subject matter expertise for the role that was floated. This was followed by a conversation with the HR and then 6 rounds of interviews with different levels of Senior Developers, Architects and Directors within the company. All the interviews were deeply focused on the skill sets required for the job, and I must say I enjoyed each one of them. The questions were a mix of the Technical Requirements for the role, the Execution capabilities and the People Management aspects. All in all, I had a great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions, including the technical ones, were situational. For e.g., tell me 3 technical challenges you are facing while you try to achieve an objective or talk about a situation where you managed multiple stakeholders while delivering on a project. For all the questions, I felt the intention was to understand my capabilities better by validating the responses that I provided. In fact most of my answers were met with a follow up question to know more about my expertise in that area.