I spoke with the first interviewer for 30 minutes over the phone. The conversation was friendly but a bit one-sided, as I was only able to ask him about one minute of questions during the entire call.

He then asked me to email him questions I had about the job, which I did. However, he took nine days to respond.

More concerningly, one of the questions I asked was, "What is the most important thing you feel is necessary to be a good manager?" His reply was, "Responsiveness." After reading that answer, I unfortunately had to take everything else he said with a grain of salt.

The following week, I had a one-hour technical interview with a second interviewer. During this interview, I typed code into a text editor while the interviewer watched and asked me questions.

The technical interview seemed more like a Software Engineering interview, as I was required to build fairly complex programs from scratch in front of the interviewer. This seemed a bit inappropriate for a Curriculum Developer interview and rather too academic.

The company should probably modify its interview process. For example, code samples with typos or errors could be presented, and the candidate could then try to find them. Alternatively, the candidate could be asked to state the output of a certain algorithm.

Those interested in the job should also keep the following in mind:

• The company plans to promote a new manager by September 2016, so the current manager will most likely not be your boss for long.

• The department is dominated by former college professors and researchers, so you will need to be comfortable working within a very academic culture.

• According to the interviewer, you are expected to work 50-60 hours per week in this role.

Find the most repeated character in a string of random characters.

Take an array of sorted numbers and return each number squared and sorted. Be sure to account for negative numbers.

How would you create a method or way to determine if a person is likely to answer a test question correctly?

• Semaphore vs. Mutex
• Process vs. Thread
• Vector vs. Linked List
• What makes an algorithm efficient?
• How would you build a curriculum to educate people about lobsters?

Return files in a folder that contain the number "100" in the filename using Linux commands.

Return text files in a folder that contain the number "100" in the text body using Linux commands.