I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Socialserve (Charlotte, NC) in Feb 2015
Interview
Found therough charlotte.craigslist.org.
First is a phone screen, consisting of some discussion regarding your skills and background, should run 15 min to 30 min, followed by an overview of the technical operatin environment at SocialServe.com This will run 15 min to 30 min. There will be some technical questions, on networking and Linux systems. If you are interested in continuing, you will be given a sample task, involving shell scripting. This will be time limited, and must be returned in the three hour start to finish window.
Expect to be stressing technical skills, cultural fit, on site support, and a social good component.
Add in additional hats and experience, and you should be good to go.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Being that I've not been a heavy *nix user or system administrator in a long time, some common commands were to be explained, two of which I was not familiar with. My test involved script writing, and even with a xunit testing framework, shell scripting errors can crop up and be difficult to diagnose. So, I was not a strong enough technical candidate for their previous search.
Note, they are currently searching again as of today March 4th, 2015
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Socialserve in Nov 2014
Interview
CEO appeared to be hands-on for the hiring process, very clear and upfront about the position and pay expectations. A few technical questions during the phone interview, the typical stuff you don't typically need to know the correct name for to understand the principles, but hey, that's what interviews are for, have to know the lingo.
On to second phase, a four hour code project, typically contrived. Seems they are looking for big-project solutions on a small simple CSV import project. Don't expect any useful feedback once completed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None were difficult, but all very specific. Some people use python sets and forget the feature until they need it again, others are more detailed oriented (we must all think the same way of course), welcome to academics in programming.
