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      Senior Systems Administrator Interview

      22 May 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Mountain View, CA

      Other Senior Systems Administrator interview reviews for Google

      Senior Systems Administrator Interview

      30 Jul 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Google (Mountain View, CA) in Aug 2010

      Interview

      The interview process was pretty straightforward and I enjoyed meeting with everyone. Everyone was friendly and professional and treated me respectfully. I passed the 1:1 onsite and then even passed the notorious hiring committee only to get shot down later without a good reason. Recruiter seemed to know the reason but was unable or unwilling to share.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How would you help the cyberattacks in china?
      Answer question
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Google (New York, NY) in Jul 2010

      Interview

      Well... it was... how do I say this... it was a no sense interview... briefly we talked about my background and what the position was about, after this the recruiter ask me 4 questions. I only answered one right. The questions were related to the LS command, the Kill command, the /etc/passwd file and the Sticky Bit... bear in mind, it looks easy I use those commands everyday... but you better memorize the whole manual pages and all the different variables to actually get a correct answer and a real interview with a real Engineer!!! well... I'm guessing that I'll do this again later and see how it goes... maybe I'm not cut to work at Google who knows...

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      What is the default kill behavior?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      How to see the inodes of a file?
      3 Answers

      Question 3

      Which fields are not supposed to be in a /etc/passwd entry?
      2 Answers

      Question 4

      Which one is the bit of the Sticky Bit?
      4 Answers
      3