I applied online. I interviewed at Vindicia (San Mateo, CA) in Sept 2023
Interview
Interviewed with the hiring Manager, 2nd round with a Senior Manager and 2 Directors, who I will be working with, 3rd round was the team and last with the VP
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions on Queries, deployment, testing
Troubleshooting questions, customer situations, Issues with the team, offshore challenges
Screen with hiring manager which would have been followed by functional leader interviews. In depth discussion about most important subject matter knowledge and leadership approach. Intro was standard with sharing current role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your familiarity with payments tokenization and issuer decline codes?
Desperation in back-filling a role for a company that's growing very quickly. The people seem to be great people and proabbly good to work with. The process took only three weeks from recruiter to a two hour video conference panel interview. The panel interveiw was with two pairs of people who were all very busy. The first hour was two peers for the role, and they balanced their continual current work interruptions pretty well. The second hour was the networking manager who asked one question "When did you last work in a data center?" and then mentally checked out after my answer didn't meet his expecation, and another engineer who spent most of the time distractedly asking questions and not really listening.
Overall, a good interview process, but not a good fit.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
A lot of the sysadmin game show style questions
What is an inode? What is NTP?, Where is the boot image located? What is a zombie process, what is Raid? What is Sudo?