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System Administrator Interview Script

Overview

  • Have you supported infrastructure for large scale websites before?
  • What was your role on the team?
  • What's something that you learned in the last year?
  • What are you looking forward to learning?
  • What would you say has been the biggest success in recent years?
  • What has been most challenging?
  • Did your team provide 24 hour support?

Technology

  • Do you have experience with continuous integration?
  • Can you briefly describe how you achieved this? (Did you transition an existing deployment process or start from scratch?)
  • Do you follow any particular set of code standards or guidelines? What languages do you code in?
  • How do you define and implement best practices across your teams / how do you benchmark them?
  • Do you perform code reviews?
  • How do you feel about documentation
  • Site requirement, wires, scope, and planning documentation?
  • Application documentation for end users?
  • Code documentation (code should be self documentating and intentful based on naming and organization)
  • How familiar are you with the modern front-end web-stack?
  • Grunt / node / sass / TDD / dev tools / debugging /
  • Responsive web / JS frameworks
  • Have you used a server side template language before? Thoughts on JSPs? Any alternatives you would suggest?
  • How hands on are you with development tasks?
  • Full stack or specialization?
  • How comfortable are you with git? (1-10)
  • Do you use an particular branching model?
  • Use the terminal or a GUI?
  • Do you have a github/bitbucket account
  • Could you describe a git cherry-pick
  • Have you ever used Vagrant?

Closing / Culture

  • What things are you looking forward to learning?
  • How do you stay educated?
  • Do you follow any specific blogs or people?
  • Do you feel specialized in any particular field of technology?
  • Why do you want to work at the NFL?
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