I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Austin, TX) in Nov 2012
Interview
The entire process took 1 week from initial interview to job offer. The first interview was question-based. They were looking for your experience and what your thought process was. The second part was an interactive interview, where you logged into one of their test environments and performed various commands and demonstrated various skills like searching, creating files with one command, networking terms, ports, etc. A lot of focus on CentOS, cPanel, and Linux.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you change a list of words in a file from slug format to Capitalized words? (ie police_officer to Police Officer)
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Austin, TX) in Oct 2012
Interview
Filled out an online application. I received a call within a couple days asking if I could come in for an interview. The interview was purely technical asking questions about DNS, Linux commands and properties, website troubleshooting, etc.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at HostGator.com (Austin, TX) in Jul 2012
Interview
I filled out the online application and was contacted. I had to take a test that involved logging on to a Linux system (with screen so they could see what I was doing) and answering questions by looking on the Linux system and making changes in order to solve a problem; I did not get the answers to all the questions correct; I did not expect to be given an offer of employment and $3000 to relocate