I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA)
Interview
It was a phone interview in which there was a discussion of several computer networking concepts and a coding question. The coding question was to write a function to traverse the nodes of a tree in breadth first manner. This was followed by an onsite interview in which I talked to six people
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to obtain the sum of the elements from (0,0) to (r,c) in a 2D array, where r and c are the row and column numbers
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in May 2015
Interview
The employee was the first point of contact and he asked me a list of questions. Then the first call was with the recruiter, followed by a phone call with the hiring manager. That went very well so I was scheduled by the internal recruiting team for several in-person half-hour each interviews on site.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Culture fit questions were high on their list. Situations and scenarios. Some skills set questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Jul 2013
Interview
Referred by current employee
Day 1: Interviewed with 4 people at Senior and Manager level
Day 2: Interviewed with Director the next day
Day 2: Offer extended the same day
The process was really fast, but I think that's due to the recognition of potential employee talent and they want to secure it before the candidate interviews with another company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you encountered a problem and how did you solve it?