The first Google phone screen for SRE candidates is so scripted that you can probably Google the questions and get exact answers.  It&#x27;s been years since I&#x27;ve had it, but I remember it being the exact same questions, about UNIX internals and TCP&#x2F;IP.<p>This type of recruiting seriously turns me off because you can tell they&#x27;re hiring minimum wage call center workers to read a script and filter out the 9&#x2F;10 candidates that can&#x27;t answer a few administrivia questions.  It makes me think of them more as an industrialized recruiting center than a company that actually cares about their workers, which is probably the wrong message to send to potential employees.