An in-house technical recruiter approached me online for a position, assuring me that I was a good fit for a job title I had never heard of and would never have considered applying for. The salary range and the promise that I was perhaps the perfect candidate for this position were compelling, despite my having zero administrative/dev-ops experience or interest. During the initial phone screen, I was told I could either take an online tech screen session with a third party or come in for a "mini onsite" where I would have to whiteboard. Since I prefer talking to people in person over a phone or video call, I took the chance to get inside the office and see how the whole place felt.

Whiteboard programming session. Parse through a series of strings following a set of format rules.

Speak through a mysterious 4 AM hypothetical server and service issue, essentially role-playing a series of ideas to find, diagnose, and solve the issue.