Rackspace Technology Windows Systems Administrator I interview questions

First part was the phone interview. Know your basic AD functions, TCP ports, DNS, Windows Web hosting essentials, MSSQL essentials (ports, files, extensions, administrator usernames). Second part was the break fix scenario, you will be monitored for how useful you are at searching for information as the test is an open book test. This picks up and adds more things from the phone interview, think of the phone interview as a table of contents of all things to come after the phone interview. Third part of the process is face to face interviews with members of the team and managers. Members of the team will test you on all topics discussed on the phone interview. Be ready to explain your butt off. If you want to make good money, know more than the essentials, know all there is about all topics covered on the phone interview: DNS AD (FSMO roles, functions) Server Roles MSSQL Ports Terminal Servers Networking (ports, NAT, sub-netting, Firewalls, static routes, VPN) Clustering Storage (HBA, SAN, DAS, NAS, RAID) The Manager's interview process like others have said is to see how you will fit with the team and how your customer service is. Overall, if you are a system administrator or are familiar with the tools in your day to day, it is a piece of cake, study all you can, and you can land a high position. If, however you are new to this, study the best you can, practice what you can and you will land at least a level 1 position. Connect with everyone and you will get a call back! Also, customer service needs to be top notch, as Rackspace looks for "Fanatical Support" candidates. If you have the customer service skills, they will teach you as long as you are honest and know the basics of a system administrator.

I applied on a note UK Job Portal and the same day a recruiter contacted me via Email. After some emails this person gave to follow up my selection to another woman from HR department who was very Junior as profile. She called me once and we agreed a date for the telephone interview, she also left me a message that she did not know what to say. Anyway after some days I did the interview with a 2nd line. The interview involve a lot of prepared questions that they use as template for every technical interview through the phone. Normally you should go there prepared for the most common technologies that they work with, like: IIS, SQL, TCP/IP ecc ecc. It took exactly 1 hour. Basically more questions you answer more point you get. Not sure about my score as nobody let me know anything therefore I sent them an email for info without any answer also if they say feel free to contact me for any queries. However logged on the portal and as every good investigator that works in the IT environment I discovered that my application from "in review" went to "not selected". This my experience with Rackspace, I am a bit disappointed.