VMware interview questions

I applied on their website and two groups wanted to talk to me. After one phone screen, I decided one position didn't appeal to me and I told them as much. I had two phone screens, one with a hiring manager who talked about the position and basically asking the behavioral questions. The second phone screen was a coding interview with collaboration software. Once I cleared the phone screen, I was asked to visit their campus for on site interview. People were generally nice and helpful(I couldn't locate the office building, one of the employees actually walked me upto the building to show it). The onsite interview was smooth, clean and to the point. They were very courteous and polite. After the onsite interview, I was told that they will inform me about the decision. Since it was the week before thanksgiving, They didn't reach out to me till the next week when they told me that they are yet to make a decision. I was told that I am in strong contention and they were trying to decide between me and an internal candidate. Since I had another offer, I didn't persue this any further.

I applied through the VMWare website. I heard back from a recruiter within 2 weeks of applying. Step 1>There was a high level non technical conversation with the recruiter. Stuff like whats your background, what are you looking for and so on. A few days later the recruiter called back to schedule a phone screen. Step 2> The phone screen was 15 minutes long. They asked me some questions on C#, SQL, asp.net mvc and other stuff that was there on my resume. Nothing too hard. Few days later the recruiter called back to schedule an in person interview. I asked for a date 1 week later and they were okay with it. Step 3>The in person interview was about 5-6 hours of back to back interviews. All the interviewers were extremely polite. They made me very comfortable. During the interview they even helped me a few times when I got stuck. However I must say that this was the toughest interview I ever attended. The interview involves a lot of white board coding. There were obviously many questions based on what was there in my resume, besides that these are the general areas that they targeted Questions on my master's thesis ( which I submitted 7 years ago!) Many algorithm based questions (code in your language of choice). Low level questions on memory management. Design/Architecture based questions. There was a question where they asked me to pick flaws in the architecture of a certain system. At the end of the interview I was about 70% confident that I would get an offer. (The 30% doubt was there because they had to help me a few times along the way) Step 4> About 2 days later I got a call from the recruiter with an offer.