I really like his interview process. Having you actually install WordPress and troubleshoot a broken MySQL installation, while having full access to Google and

I really like his interview process. Having you actually install WordPress and troubleshoot a broken MySQL installation, while having full access to Google and other resources, is much closer to real sysadmin work than the type of interviewing that Google and the rest of the tech elite seem to like. I am so sick of getting asked basic administrivia that you never need to know in your daily job, or can easily be googled within 3 seconds. Our brains have selective memory - we remember what is important to us. If I have to sit through one more interview being asked about esoteric junk like the structure of an inode on disk or how to code an algorithm that you never use outside of a CompSci course in University I'm going to hang up on the interviewer.