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      Linux Systems Administrator I Interview

      13 Jan 2011
      Anonymous employee
      Austin, TX

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      Linux Systems Administrator I Interview

      5 Sept 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Houston, TX
      Declined offer
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Austin, TX) in Oct 2010

      Interview

      I applied online, received an e-mail to schedule an interview day and time. I was called and interviewed promptly on time. The questions weren't hard and consisted of basic linux skills. You wouldn't need any sort of job history to pass this, just need to know what you are doing with linux. I never even went to school, and still passed. If you can't pass this, then there is absolutely now way that you could ever do this job, so don't feel bad, just get another one. I talked to the CTO for my interview, he was very nice. Some of the questions he asked, I was slightly unfamiliar with what he was asking, so I walked him through my thought processes, and he really enjoyed that. Advice to any one in the future would be to learn basic linux skills. Questions consist of: 1. How to list mysql processes 2. How to do linux permissions (I.E. 777 - rwxrwxrwx) 3. Know DNS, CNAME, A Record, spf, txt, ptr, mx 4. Know how to list processes on the machine, and kill them 5. Know how to mitigate attacks against a server 6. Know what LAMP means, as well as general terms for current technology 7. Be polite, and honest.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      What would permissions of 755 be
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      What is the difference between run level 3 and run level 5
      2 Answers
      6
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Houston, TX) in Aug 2013

      Interview

      They call and ask basic customer service questions then ask to schedule an interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Basic questions, i had the phone interview questions.
      1 Answer

      Linux Systems Administrator Interview

      30 Jul 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Declined offer

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at HostGator.com

      Interview

      After an initial phone screening from HR I took another interview/test with an administrator. I SSH'd into a box they had setup and performed some steps that he told me over the phone. The technical interview was fairly easy, especially since I could take my time and was allowed to look up any details/man pages when needed.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Some of the MySQL tasks were a bit rusty for me.
      Answer question

      Linux Systems Administrator I Interview

      6 Feb 2013
      Anonymous employee
      Austin, TX
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Austin, TX) in Nov 2012

      Interview

      The entire process took 1 week from initial interview to job offer. The first interview was question-based. They were looking for your experience and what your thought process was. The second part was an interactive interview, where you logged into one of their test environments and performed various commands and demonstrated various skills like searching, creating files with one command, networking terms, ports, etc. A lot of focus on CentOS, cPanel, and Linux.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How do you change a list of words in a file from slug format to Capitalized words? (ie police_officer to Police Officer)
      2 Answers
      2