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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.

"You've been at your current position for several years, we're concerned that you're going to come in here and want to tell us how we're doing everything wrong and how it needs to change. Can you answer my concerns about that?"
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IT UNIX Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★
Feb 25, 2014

"You've been at your current position for several years, we're concerned that you're going to come in here and want to tell us how we're doing everything wrong and how it needs to change. Can you answer my concerns about that?"

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