Phone Interview: Hiring manager interviewed for 30 minutes Pure technical questions Explain previous project and responsibilities: Prepare answers for every bullet on the resume Questions on Linux administration: if config, user/group creations, Ping, Internal/External IP address, AWS Security groups, VPC. Questions on Open Stack, Python/Shell Script: Say NO if you don't have any idea; Show interest to learn Questions on your education: What subjects did you take Behavioral Questions: Where do you see yourself in the next five years? Why did you choose systems admin? Why not Programming? Face - Face Interview: 90 Minutes Interview with hiring manager and team Hands-on as well as whiteboarding It's like a rapid fire round from the team members - No questions from the Hiring manager. More questions from resume and previous work Prepare to explain your previous project on white board Prepare to write some code/algorithm and explain on white board Hands-on will be basic administration tasks: Auto SSH from one terminal to other, Install Apache and listen to the port. You are allowed to use the internet to perform hands-on. But hiring manager and the team will be watching your screen.