I am looking for my first job out of school and have no experience related to system administration or network engineering.

I was contacted by email to schedule a phone interview. Phone interview had a background portion and an technical portion. I thought the background portion was a little intrusive. They asked me if I was interviewing elsewhere, asked me to name the companies, and if I had offers why or why not I would take a particular job. It sounded like they didn't want to proceed with the process unless you were dead set on working for them.

For the technical portion, I was asked a bunch of general term questions related to networking and operating systems.

The questions were: What is the difference between broadcast and multicast? What are the parts that make up a server? What is RAID? What is the difference between TCP and UDP? What is Active Directory? What is the difference between a 32 bit and 64 bit OS? What is a register? What is DNS? What is the basic building block of Linux?

I was able to answer all the questions except maybe the Active Directory and the broadcast vs multicast question since I was rusty on my networking concepts. Last networking class I took was 2 years ago. A few days later I received a rejection email. Maybe they wanted candidates that could answer all the questions. They said in the email they couldn't offer advice. I appreciate that they got back to me quickly though.

Last question was what are your hobbies? This was rather unexpected. I'm not sure if they wanted me to talk about anything technical here and wanted to see whether I live and breathe computers even outside of school.