I received a call from HR, followed by a technical interview with two engineers, one of whom was simply auditing. They were looking for someone with Linux experience and coding skills. I wrote the code they requested and answered questions, such as how curl works. The interviewer who was not a Linux expert spent an excessive amount of time, about 15 minutes, asking about ls -l *. I have 20 years of experience managing Linux infrastructure, and that is what they wanted to scrutinize. It ended okay, but it was clear the interviewer was unprepared, as he had no other questions and repeatedly returned to ls.

How ls works

What is curl

Parse some logs and count IPs, etc.