The initial phone interview with their in-house recruiter was pleasant and informative. My second phone interview was with the CTO and was very disappointing. He seemed distracted, disorganized, and generally disengaged. I didn't feel like I had a chance to sell myself.

To my surprise, I received an email some days later stating that the interview was positive. It took a few weeks of going back and forth to arrange an onsite interview. I was interviewed by two separate people, one of whom would have been reporting to me had I been hired, which I found very odd.

The interview consisted mostly of aptitude questions designed to find out what you don't know, and the delivery bordered on being mean-spirited. I've encountered this before when being interviewed by untrained, individual contributors.

The second interviewer was the manager of another department within the organization. Although the second interviewer asked some management-related questions, there were still an inordinate number of "stump-the-chump" tech questions with the same somewhat mean-spirited delivery.

I answered many of the questions without hesitation and was even complimented for being among the top 5%. Not bad for a manager, eh?

I was disappointed with the amount of time and effort I put into this process for a position that was not what I thought it was. I think they really wanted a senior systems administrator, or something along those lines - not a manager.

How do you stop a bash fork bomb?