Initial communication consisted of discussions with a recruiter followed by a phone screen with the hiring manger. Interview was all-day at the VMware campus in Palo Alto. It consisted of one-on-one meetings with a number of engineers of various ranks from within the group, as well as the hiring manager and another group manager. The interviews focused on programming questions, but there were also systems design questions. Recruiter followed up in a couple of days following meeting with the interview team.