I am looking for my first job out of school and have no experience related to system administration or network engineering. I was contacted by email to schedule a phone interview. Phone interview had a background portion and an technical portion. I thought the background portion was a little intrusive. They asked me if I was interviewing elsewhere, asked me to name the companies, and if I had offers why or why not I would take a particular job. It sounded like they didn't want to proceed with the process unless you were dead set on working for them. For the technical portion, I was asked a bunch of general term questions related to networking and operating systems. The questions were: What is the difference between broadcast and multicast? What are the parts that make up a server? What is RAID? What is the difference between tcp and udp? What is active directory? What is the difference between a 32 bit and 64 bit OS? What is a register? What is DNS? What is the basic building block of Linux? I was able to answer all the questions except maybe the active directory and the broadcast vs multicast question since I was rusty on my networking concepts. Last networking class I took was 2 years ago. A few days later I received a rejection email. Maybe they wanted candidates that could answer all the questions. They said in the email they couldn't offer advice. I appreciate that they got back to me quickly though.