I applied online. I interviewed at VMware (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
This was one weird interview process. Never have I experienced an interview where they would ask about the syntax of a particular function. This was not a one off thing, this kept happening for for both the technical interviews. Basically you are not asked what problem you were trying to accomplish, no discussion about the overall picture, design methodology or processes.
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.
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.
