Google Interview

[Hunki]

I am going to have an interview with google for a linux system admin position. What types of questions and interview process can I expect. Can somebody share some personal experiences. I have a total of 5 yrs of IT experience but the recent on has been on application admin on unix.

thanks
hunki

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Hunki,

Google is unique and what you get from this thread may be less useful than general.

I've been asked these kind of questions on interviews of the years:

1) What is your disaster recovery philosophy?
2) How do you find all files with string "medical" in them.
3) What is your philosophy on patching?

Hope this helps.

SEP

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

There are numerous descriptions of google job interviews floating around the internet.

I don't recall them being all too positive, i.e. a lot of repetive interviews. In the end I got suspicious they won't hire You if You go through all this.

Expect quite a few interviews with quite a few people and at least 2 days to get it done.