Had a call with the hiring manager who only seemed interested in why I was leaving my previous job and not what I have been working on or my skillset. At the end of the call I didn't seem like that was a good impression and decided not to pursue.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at VMware (Atlanta, GA) in Oct 2014
Interview
I arrived at their office and spent about 2 hours onsite. I met with 2 people - the hiring director and his VP. Both were friendly and both interviews were not difficult.
In the first interview, there were no really tough questions, however, I did flub a technology-specific question regarding an application feature relevant to my job, due to a misunderstanding of a term on my part, and then IMO had trouble recovering from it.
The second interview was less technical, more informational and behavioral. I thought this interview went better.
I was then offered a tour of their main facility, which is converted trading floor - unlike any office environment I'd seen before, with about a hundred-plus engineers types milling about. Not sure this is my type of work environment.
My biggest disappointment is that despite my taking a half day off my existing job to meet with these folks, they did not have the courtesy to ever get back to me - which is a cold way to say you didn't get the job. That alone gives me some serious doubts about how people are treated in this organization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They wanted to know about my past experiences, and asked how I go about solving problems.
Got the coding round and got rejected though all test cases passed. The recruiter sent a hacker rank directly. Got everything executed but still sent a rejection since they got another candidate for the position
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hackerrank questions: String manipulation, what is a middleware
in total i had 3 rounds, first round was coding which was easy problems. next two rounds were technical interviews which were medium to hard and went in depth C++ concepts.