I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at VMware
Interview
Got through referral, 5 different interviews with different members of team. Couple design questions. Leetcode easy/medium otherwise.
Actually only time i've been asked to reverse a linked list.
Process was pretty long, 1.5 month process and I believe that's not abnormal .
Also had referral so skipped a step in there too
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Bengaluru) in Feb 2022
Interview
I was very skeptical about the interview as HR could not clarify any doubts I had before the interview. And once 2 rounds of technical was done she ghosted me. Didn't reply to my emails or my calls. Why do these Hr's, who are so polite before you start the interview process, immediately start ghosting you after you are done with interviews? Haven't we both invested our time in this whole process? Doesn't the candidate deserve to know what happened? Or is this in the culture of VMware HR's
I really don't care and have never cared whether I get selected or rejected, but what I have always cared about is feedback. I have no shame in admitting that I was not selected in Amazon once, but what I liked about them is they came back to say that they can't hire me and provided proper feedback. That's where a company makes an impression. But these guys. Ahhh. I was reading about these things happening in other reviews but was not sure to believe them. But now I believe them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an LRU Cache,
Trees traversal LeetCode question
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Bengaluru) in Feb 2022
Interview
It's a very lengthy process, It took around 40 days for a total of 6 rounds (2 codings, 1 system design, 1 hiring manager, 2 directors rounds) .
Though it's a lengthy process it is properly managed.
The interviewers, Recruiters were also very nice people.
But the worst part of the interview process was the Job Description, it was not matching with the expectation at all, not even 10% of what is mentioned in the job description.
It is pure people management role, but JD is for a pure technical role.
I felt very disheartened when I was rejected after giving 6 rounds that leadership was the issue.
I agree with this comment somehow, but I would like to highlight one issue here. you cannot expect everything to be perfect as a manager from a person having overall 11 years of experience. 11 years of person could have maximum 3 years of people management experience and tat too with some technical role. It's very very rare for a person with pre people management role with 11 years of experience.
I would suggest the team of you are looking for such a role and please change your job description because candidates read it first. as CV or resume is the first impression so the JD as well.
and please stop taking the technical coding and designing interviews if you don't need that skill at all.
And please provide the proper detailed feedback if you reject the candidate after 6 rounds. Its field is very very bad.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement Least recent used caching.
Implement a method to get the call stack of a method.
One Design problem.
Behavioural questions in Director's rounds.