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Questions quickly deviated from expected Unix/Linux topics, into experience with their partcular and obscure setup and questions about database management and operations (You have two registers with numbers in them and no scratch space or temporary storage. You need to exchange the two numbers and be able to reverse the operation). No DB management/operations requirements were listed on the job description.
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Junior Linux/Unix Systems Administrative

Interviewed at Modspace

3.2★
Feb 10, 2015

Questions quickly deviated from expected Unix/Linux topics, into experience with their partcular and obscure setup and questions about database management and operations (You have two registers with numbers in them and no scratch space or temporary storage. You need to exchange the two numbers and be able to reverse the operation). No DB management/operations requirements were listed on the job description.

What is a sticky bit? What is the difference between umask and ulimit? What is an inode? What is a symlink? What is a hard link? How do they work? Explain permission entries on a file and how they function. No questions about containers, Kubernetes, git, infrastructure-as-code, or anything from the past 20 years.
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NOC Unix Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Allstate

3.4★
Apr 10, 2022

What is a sticky bit? What is the difference between umask and ulimit? What is an inode? What is a symlink? What is a hard link? How do they work? Explain permission entries on a file and how they function. No questions about containers, Kubernetes, git, infrastructure-as-code, or anything from the past 20 years.

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