Google contacted me; they had my resume from an old interview many years ago.

After a few email exchanges about available positions, a phone screen was arranged.

During the phone screen, they asked technical questions to gauge my skills.

It looks like I did well because, after that, I was invited for an on-site interview.

If I remember correctly, first I was interviewed by 2-3 people (like a panel interview), and one of them was dialing in from a different location. They asked mostly general and architecture questions.

After that, I had two one-on-one interviews:

• The first was with a software engineer who was very polite and asked me about general programming stuff.
• The second was with a network/sysadmin, but he was rather rude and flatly refused to answer any of my questions during the course of the interview. It was like I had to answer questions only and not ask anything. I felt very uncomfortable and disappointed.

What is an inode?