VVerisign·Systems Engineer

Verisign Systems Engineer interview experience

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Reston, VAPosted Feb 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview was a 30-minute phone call with the hiring manager focused heavily on technical content.

Before diving in, I had to prepare answers explaining my previous projects and responsibilities, and they asked for details I’d have to be ready to support from every bullet on my resume. That call also touched on Linux administration—things like creating users and groups, ping, internal and external IP addressing, AWS security groups, and VPC concepts.

The conversation also went into OpenStack plus Python and shell scripting. They made it clear that I should say no if I genuinely didn’t know something, but they also wanted to see interest in learning. There were behavioral questions too,

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