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Linux Systems Administrator at Rackspace
Posted Mar 29, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took 1+ week)
I applied to RackSpace through an ad on their website, the next day I received an email from a recruiter in San Antonio asking to setup a phone screen interview. The next day I was screened on basic Linux questions including ports, layouts of the system, some basic MySQL commands and a short scenario (basically just to weed out people who don't know what they say they do.)
The next day I received an email from the recruiter telling me that they would love to setup a break fix interview with one of their current systems admins. The interview consisted of me sshing into a machine, running screen, and the interviewer asking me to accomplish tasks (naturally that didn't work) - then having me walk through step by step and fix the issues at hand and explain why I was handling them in that fashion. The break fix was fairly in-depth and varied from basic Linux commands to MySQL connectivity issues. Over all the interview was extremely knowledgeable and extremely friendly. The break-fix was an excellent test of skills and the thought process of the candidate.
About 3 days later I was called again by my recruiter and asked if I would like to come down to San Antonio for an in-person interview. Despite being one of the craziest and longest days of my life, the interview at RackSpace was amazing and very in depth. It consisted of 3 rounds of two interviewers. The questions ranged from hypothetical issues to Linux commands, to ethics and personality.
Advice to people interviewing? Be yourself, be honest with what you don't know and DO NOT forget your interviewers names! The people at RackSpace are awesome and extremely knowledgeable. Good luck!
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Relocation package for moving across the country. They're more than happy to work with you in assisting to find an apartment and moving. Overall the best place I've ever interviewed for!
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Linux Systems Administrator at Rackspace
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in San Antonio, TX (took a day)
The interview was given by two gentleman, who apparently were last second substitutions, who were both very nice and obviously intelligent. They were wearing blue jeans and t-shirts and were so informal and relaxed that it was almost off-putting. The interview was almost exclusively a personality assessment with some questions about basic linux ideas thrown in.
I am giving the interview a difficulty ranking of "difficult" strictly because I thought I killed the interview(I was extremely excited for the chance to work at such a well reputed company), but I didnt get the job.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Linux Systems Administrator at Rackspace
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in San Antonio, TX (took 2 weeks)
I applied online then received an email from my recruiter to schedule a phone interview. I had about 5 interviews total :
- Initial screening : Personality, background and basic Linux questions (ports, regexp, commands), the recruiter was clearly reading from a paper to match the answers! The interviewer was very friendly and told me that I passed to round 2 right after we were done.
- Technical break-fix interview : Slightly more in-depth interview with people who will be on my shift, I was given ssh access to a VM in a somewhat broken state that I had to fix and perform a number of admin tasks on. The interview lasted about an hour and was with two rackers. They also had some personality type questions for me.
- Last round : They flew me down to San Antonio to have 3 sets of interviews, 1 hour each, in one day. I also met with the two rackers who interviewed me last time! During the in-house interview, sometimes, we would get distracted by the music and dancing of other coworkers. Some of them were in the middle of a paper rolls battle behind their cubes, it was very amusing to watch!
The hole process was quite engaging and I had a good time and met some very awesome and friendly people. I could see they were happy to be at work!
Two weeks after the last interview, I received an offer from my recruiter.
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Didn't negotiate, I was fine with the entry level salary and the relocation assistance provided.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Linux Systems Administrator at Rackspace
Posted Oct 8, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in San Antonio, TX (took 4+ weeks)
Applied online, went through a brief phone screening interview on basic linux questions. A few days later, went through a more technical interview with a linux tech, including some 'breakfix' scenarios after logging into a testing server.
Another recruiter called a few days later saying they wanted to interview me for the linux support in the cloud division, so there was another technical phone interview and breakfix session with a linux cloud support tech. After this I was invited to San Antonio for some in-person interviewing, which included meeting with three groups of two rackers each, about 3 hours in total where we went over both linux questions and personality-type questions as well as some whiteboard "brain workout" exercises.
After returning home, I was called by my recruiter to setup a skype video interview with some of the people that would be on my shift if hired. This wasn't a technical interview, it was basically a 'team fit' interview on personality. A couple of days later, my recruiter called and made an offer.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Linux Systems Administrator at Rackspace
Posted Apr 19, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 4 days)
they asked me basic commands in linux like cd, cp, rm. mv. top, vmstat, iostat, kill, pkill, uname, then briefly about FTP, DNS, NIS, kickstart, TFTP, after that questions on personality based like what is one thing do you want to change in your last company if you have a chance?, Did you do any mistake in the last job and how could you solve that?, how would you assist a customer who is angry on you., why do you think that you are a good fit for this position?.
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