The application and interview process took 5 weeks.

HR introductory interview: The interviewer asked a series of simple trivia-style questions, including:

• UNIX command to search for specific text through files in a directory.
• Binary search versus linear search.
• DNS resolution.

Following this, a programming test was to be completed and submitted in any language.

Phone interview 1:

• Given a log file with one entry per line, find the 10 most frequently appearing entries.
• Describe what happens when you request a page to be loaded in your browser.

Phone interview 2:

• Included some more typical interview programming questions.

All interviews had many UNIX-specific, trivia-style questions that required knowledge of UNIX utilities and their options.