VMware , Member of Technical Staff interview questions

The whole process consisted of 2 phone interviews and 7 in-person interviews. Phone interviews consisted of questions ranging from OS , File Systems , C ,Multithreading Models and a couple of programming questions. HR was quick to respond after phone interviews and I was called in for on-site interview. Questions range was similar to phone interviews - OS , Multiprocessor architecture, Networking and a lot of coding. Met some very good and some of the most arrogant interviewers. A couple of interviewers were more interested in their phones rather than the code / answers I was giving. They ask you a lot about vmware products and will ask you to list the ones you know about. Then ask / grill you with technical questions about the ones you do not know! While it gives a nice set of design questions, they'll laugh ( rather smirk ) if your answers do not match with the way they have implemented it. After postponing the decision 2 times ( they said they are still deciding ) , they sent a rejection email.

Hiring process consisted of 3 technical telephonic rounds, 3 face to face rounds and an HR interview. The first round was very basic. The second and third were designed to probe more on the technical skills. Was asked to design and code a few scenarios through an online collaboration tool. 4th, 5th and 6th rounds were face to face rounds each one of them taking about 45 minutes to an hour. Rounds were tough with lot of design and coding exercises to be demonstrated.