I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at X (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Twitter reached out to me several times over the years. Most recently it was for an SRE position. I spoke with the team lead and had a nice positive conversation, then was set up for a screen with another SRE. Though I was told I would need to do live scripting with the other SRE, he decided not to do that with me, which was good, since I had told everyone along the way that my strength was not in scripting, and if the job required heavy scripting or coding or code analysis that I was not the right person for the job. Nonetheless, when it came to an in-person interview, it was all about scripting. I found that a bit frustrating and a waste of my time. In general, I felt that the right hand had no idea what the left hand was doing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Live scripting question with no preamble on a white board in front of a 23-year-old engineer.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at X
Interview
Had two phone interviews, passed those. Was flown to San Francisco for all day interview. Very disorganized people were not told where I had come from, some had to leave early due to other meetings. They had other people I saw for interviews. HR apologized, they pushed on scripting questions and expected full answers. Needless to say, I wasn't impressed by this all and wouldn't be interested in companies that hire this way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a script to remove a machine from monitoring if it has X conditions, you pick the resource and threshold before disabling the monitoring of the server. Write in your language of choice