My experience was not so stellar.<p>Interviewer tagged me and I thought I&#x27;d go along with it for the fun. I&#x27;m a systems engineer not a developer so YMMV.<p>First stage interviewer put me through a basic aptitude test (&quot;what is netstat?&quot;, &quot;what&#x27;s the expected output of dig?&quot;) which was fine and I answered them all with a fair degree of correctness but the questions quickly went on to different programming languages, and while I&#x27;ve done some small things and I definitely know my way around a bourne shell I didn&#x27;t get spectacular marks honestly, mostly because he was asking <i>programming</i> questions and I haven&#x27;t had as much exposure to code as I&#x27;d like.<p>the next week I receive what I thought was a follow up call, but it was another round of preliminary questions.. around 2 questions in, and I realise these are the same exact questions I answered the week before. I&#x27;m a bastion of honesty, and while I knew the answers to all his questions now (because curiousity made me look up the ones I had failed.) I felt I should tell him that he asked me these questions before. I did.. he fell silent.. &quot;are you sure&quot;<p>&quot;Yeah, your next question is about netstat&quot;<p>&quot;.. oh.. well I don&#x27;t have your results&quot;<p>&quot;Do you have any other questions to ask, you can reask me questions but my success rate will be higher this time&quot;<p>&quot;no, we&#x27;ll contact you in 6 months&quot;<p>Well, he didn&#x27;t, but that process shook me a bit.. I certainly wouldn&#x27;t call it stellar, and I&#x27;m likely blacklisted from interviewing at google now as I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve had recruiter spam from them in a long time.