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One of the key questions they asked me was about my previous experience and how it aligns with the role I was applying for. They wanted to understand my key skills, past achievements, and how I could contribute to their team. It was a great opportunity to showcase my strengths and provide real-world examples of my work.

System Administrator

Interviewed at Cubespace Technologies

4.3
Mar 13, 2025

One of the key questions they asked me was about my previous experience and how it aligns with the role I was applying for. They wanted to understand my key skills, past achievements, and how I could contribute to their team. It was a great opportunity to showcase my strengths and provide real-world examples of my work.

- how much you know about this company? - why did you apply for this job? - why should we hire and what you bring for us? - what things you don't like about current job and why do you want leave? - how is your attitude and going fit inside team and handle conflict all are behavioral questions...... ======================= 2ed part is technical questions - what the current kerenl version you use and what is latest kerenl right now - some linux question like troubleshooting and checking log - what is NAT - different between tomcat and apache - and more ..... 3th part =============== give you access to debian - check with kernel running - check of there is any wireless running - check if apache installed - start apache - there is error when trying to start of dir missing you need correct that from conf file - check mysql installed - login to mysql - select, describe, delete row on mysql .....
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Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Mercedes-Benz International

3.8
Feb 24, 2015

- how much you know about this company? - why did you apply for this job? - why should we hire and what you bring for us? - what things you don't like about current job and why do you want leave? - how is your attitude and going fit inside team and handle conflict all are behavioral questions...... ======================= 2ed part is technical questions - what the current kerenl version you use and what is latest kerenl right now - some linux question like troubleshooting and checking log - what is NAT - different between tomcat and apache - and more ..... 3th part =============== give you access to debian - check with kernel running - check of there is any wireless running - check if apache installed - start apache - there is error when trying to start of dir missing you need correct that from conf file - check mysql installed - login to mysql - select, describe, delete row on mysql .....

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