VMware Software Member Technical Staff Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Basic Coding questions around LRU Cache and Top View Tree Traversal

Multi threading and Internal Working of Hash Map!

Q1. Behavioural Questions
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Q1. Behavioural Questions
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Q1. Behavioural Questions
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Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The round was audio and video proctored, since it was virtual.
It lasted for 90 minutes.
The questions was of medium level.

Q1. 
Next Smallest Palindrome Problem Statement
Find the next smallest palindrome strictly greater than a given number 'N' represented as a string 'S'.
Explanation:
You are given a number in string format, a...read more
Ans. Palindromic String
In this method, Before we start let us define what is the right half (or right part) and what is left half (or left part) in the string. There can be two cases based on the length of the string:
 
• Case-1: (Odd length string), consider the string “1234567”, the part of the string “123” is the left part(or left half) and the part “567” is the right part(or right half), and the one left(4) is called t...read more
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was Technical round of 60 minutes,
the interviewer was very nice person.

Q1. 
Check Permutation Problem Statement
Given two strings 'STR1' and 'STR2', determine if they are anagrams of each other.
Explanation:
Two strings are considered to be anagrams if they contain the same cha...read more
Ans. Brute-Force
The basic idea of this approach is to sort both the strings and compare the characters of the sorted strings.
• Sort both strings.
• Compare the characters of the sorted strings.
Space Complexity: O(logn)Explanation:
O(1)
 
Since we not using any extra space, the overall space complexity will be O(1).
Time Complexity: O(nlogn)Explanation:
O(N * log(N)), Where ‘N’ is the length of the strings.
 
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Q2. Which data structure would you use to implement the undo and redo operation in a system?
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

It was a resume based Interview round technical - 2
the interviewer was helping and humble.

Q1. Can you design the bank architecture using basic OOP concepts in any programming language?
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Round duration - 15 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was the easiest round.
And it was supposed to be the same.
It was an HR round.

Q1. Question from BST, Stack
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Q2. Multi-threading and concurrency, lock.
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Q3. Interval merge, divider and conquer
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Q4. Project discussion, design discussion
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Q5. Manager discussion for 30 min. This was about work and team.
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Th interviewer asked me questions related to various topics of OS, Data Structures and Algorithm.
Tips: Have a strong hold on topics of OS like segmentation and buddy systems.

Q1. What is segmentation?
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Q2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the buddy system?
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Q3. What is a page fault?
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The round consisted of questions of heap, Towers of hanoi and other questions related to CV.
Tips: Time complexity analysis of Towers of Hanoi Problem is important. Good skillset in DS and Algorithms, Bit Manipulation.

Q1. 
Tower of Hanoi Problem Statement
You have three rods numbered from 1 to 3, and 'N' disks initially stacked on the first rod in increasing order of their sizes (largest disk at the bottom). Your task is to...read more
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Q2. 
Convert Array to Min Heap Task
Given an array 'ARR' of integers with 'N' elements, you need to convert it into a min-binary heap.
A min-binary heap is a complete binary tree where each internal node's va...read more
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Round duration - 30 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

The HR asked about my hobbies, extra curricular activities and checked my personality.