The interview process appears to consist of three stages, though more may follow if a candidate is successful on the third stage.

• A phone interview with a technical sourcer.
• A phone interview with an existing Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• An onsite interview in Durham, NC, with two SREs and a WW Support Manager.

My only complaint throughout the entire experience was how awful the actual Durham location seemed. However, perhaps I missed something obvious about ease of parking, and to be honest, I didn't get much time to explore the surrounding area. On the bright side, the people seem great!

The initial phone interview with HR covered basic role information and included a few questions about familiarity with certain aspects of the role. The second phone interview had the SRE delve deeper into the position, discussing their experience at Nutanix and mentioning key tasks they hoped interns would regularly undertake. The onsite interview consisted of a run-through of four pillars: networking, virtualization, storage, and Linux. My knowledge outside of networking and virtualization is pretty lackluster. My existing knowledge of networking and virtualization wasn't incredible to begin with, so I believe that's where I fell short during the onsite interview. I don't recall specific questions asked, but the gist seemed to revolve around fundamental TCP/IP, virtualization experience with Hyper-V and VMWare (as those were the two hypervisors I had used), software-defined storage (I assume) if applicable, and Linux questions ranging from the strengths of Linux to basic commands.

Despite the rejection, this was arguably the most solid interviewing experience I've had in the past two years of interviewing on and off while holding a job. HR made things painless, the onsite interview folks seemed great, and everything appeared 100% fair! Kudos!

Q: Honestly, I don't remember specific questions, but I guess one that was brought up would be: "How would you rename a file via terminal in Linux?"