TransUnion Senior Linux Administrator interview questions

Well I tried to come with a good single word to describe this employer and its interview process but the best I can come up with is: classless. This site seems to be both lacking in hospitality, people skills, and enterprise level accumen. First of all HR failed to mention that when you arrive at the building you are not greeted in the lobby but expected to know to schlep up to the 16th or 17th floor to be let in by the receptionist at by speaking into an intercom inconspicuously placed on the wall by the door. This is your first warning sign a lack of normal hospitality. It is like you just started a really bad RPG and you are trying to figure out how to get to your interview with little or no clues. A second warning to me was the building they are in is dirty, dingy, and old. Looks like you just stepped into a time-warp that has thrown you back 30 years. The carpet looks like it was last replaced in the 60's or there about. Out of all the nice buildings in Buckhead Atlanta this appears to be the worst. The lobby is passable but just barely. The manager I interviewed with must have been a hardcore technical person as I have rarely seen so someone in a management role who appeared to be so devoid of people skills. Not only were they not going to ask about validating parking for the building's garage but they seemed disturbed when I asked. Never seen a company too cheap to cover parking. Well then there are the cubes -- would an animal even be placed in a space so small today? Probably not without being set upon by the ASPCA in a moments notice. So second warning is treating people with little respect or class. Warning #3 is that the expect their Unix/Linux admin to cover Windows on-call rotations. I don't know about you but I do Unix/Linux for a reason -- it is not Windows. So if you want to be cleaning Windows then this is the job for you/ My advice is just reboot them every morning at 7 am. :-) The fourth reason is that all the direction seems to be provided above the manager level and that never is good for a team of Unix/Linux Admin to be driven by remote control by suit at corporate. I suspect the manager of the team was a Windows guy since his questions were esoteric to the job at hand. I have done "the Windows admin as a manager" deal a number of times and prefer either a professional manager or a former U/L guy. At this point I would rather clean toilets. Former Windows guys usually don't know how to deal with day to day admin of U/L. So it was clear to me the direction is clearly not local to that manager. The fifth and final reason to avoid this job is that all the folks I talked with seemed homegrown with little external enterprise experience. Essentially a group of folks who have never seen the outside world and were promoted into the position not due to merit and aptitude but due having been a friend of a friend. There questions were both sophomoric and laughable and they seemed to want to challenge even the most ridiculous items. They even have the audacity to act as if their line of question is monolithic when it really isn't. It is just the way they do it at that site and it just proves my theory they are very short sighted here and perhaps indicative of the company as a whole. So if you are a U/L person my advice for you is pass on the local interview in favor of some other nicer company in the area. There seems to be no shortage of other U/L positions. This is of course all my opinion and provided as warning to others who might be offered an interview here.