I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Allstate in Feb 2022
Interview
No phone screening. No discussion with HR or a recruiter.
Video interview with technical staff. Little opportunity to ask my own questions, no opportunity to discuss pay. No follow-up interview. Just being grilled with technical questions for a low-level technical job for 40 minutes.
The offered pay would need to be increased by 50% to be acceptable. The company ghosted me when I gave them my acceptable range.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.