I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at New York Internet
Interview
Very fair and clear process. They don't expect you to know everything, but they do value your experience and creativity. Interviewers were very positive and skilled. As I have been working as system administrator for many years that was a good decision to apply for this position and accept the offer from NYI.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Call from HR. 2. In-person interview in the office (TCP/IP fundamentals, Linux and FreeBSD basic knowledge check). 3. Video interview with senior engineer/solution architect (Databases, Nginx, Haproxy, FreeBSD advanced level check)
Expect to be able to display some working knowledge of the technologies you'll be interfacing with on a daily basis. They're looking for foundational knowledge that you'll build upon during your employment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you familiar with open source operating systems?
I applied online. I interviewed at New York Internet (New York, NY) in Nov 2015
Interview
HR phone interview was fairly straightforward/easy just going over your experience and discussing the role. Then an in-person interview at an alternate location from their actual office, which is a bit weird. Before the interview, I was given a two page quiz on computing to fill out. Then an employee came in for the interview portion.
He looked at my quiz for less than a second before saying, "Whatever, we don't need to look at this." Which was pretty disappointing since my answers were good, I thought. Then he went on to ask me everything about computers you'd ever ask someone, down to every last detail, which was kind of ridiculous. It's like he was getting off on extracting information from me that he just personally wanted to know that wasn't even that relevant to the position. He asked an inordinate amount of questions about telnet and various DNS sorts of intricacies. He also mocked me once in the interview, which was sort of hurtful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If a website doesn't show up (i.e. blank page), what are the steps you'd take to figure out why?