Graduation: B.Tech. in IT from IIIT Allahabad\nExperience: 1 year 8 months\nPosition: Technical Analyst at Goldman Sachs\nLocation: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India\nDate: January 25, 2023\n\nI recently applied for an MTS-2 role in VMWare through a referral. I was interviewed where I had 2 technical rounds. All virtual rounds happened in a day back-to-back.\n\n**Round 1 - Technical Round [60 mins] : Coding (Data Structures & Algorithms)**\n- Firstly the interviewer introduced himself and asked me to do the same\n- Next, he asked me to describe the projects I worked on in Goldman Sachs and some follow up questions on them\n- Merge two sorted arrays - https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-sorted-array/\n- Follow up question on the same with k sorted arrays - https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-k-sorted-lists/ and asked to code\n- Basic questions were asked like [difference between stack memory and heap memory](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836309/stack-memory-vs-heap-memory), advantages of a vector, [list vs array traversal efficiency](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47781316/linked-list-vs-array-traversal-efficiency)\n\n**Round 2 - Technical Round [60 mins] : Coding (Data Structures & Algorithms) + System Design**\n\n- A little discussion on the projects I worked on in Goldman Sachs\n- Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters - https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-with-at-most-k-distinct-characters/\n- Asked questions on System Design on topics of vertical scaling, horizontal scaling, Cache System, LRU Cache - https://leetcode.com/problems/lru-cache/ and its implementation, Microservices, Load Balancing, Master Slave Architecture in Database, etc\n- Asked how would have stopped the [DDoS attack](https://github.blog/2018-03-01-ddos-incident-report/) from happening in your software\n\nI was shortlisted for round 3 on 27th January 2023 and the HM round (Round 3) was scheduled on 30th January 2023\n\n**Round 3 : Hiring Manager Round : Behavioral Questions**\n\n- Introduce yourself.\n- What all projects have you worked on?\n- If you have a conflict with your team member, how would you handle that?\n- How was your manager feedback and how do you handle the positive and negative feedback?\n- How do you rate yourself in Java from 1-10 and how would you improve your Java skills?\n- What was your proudest moment in your career?\n- What is the most recent skill you have learned about?\n- What challenges did you face in the beginning of your career and how did you overcome them?\n- How do you handle pressure and how do you handle high workload?\n- Define success according to you.\n- How has your work helped your users (basically explain how your projects have helped users)?\n- Do you have any questions for me?\n\n**Result** : Received an offer in about a month\n\nCompensation Details - https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3239507/VMWare-or-MTS-2-or-Bangalore

Graduation: B.Tech. in IT from IIIT Allahabad\nExperience: 1 year 8 months\nPosition: Technical Analyst at Goldman Sachs\nLocation: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India\