Linux System Administrator for bidorbuy

[MagicDude4Eva]

Requirements for the internships? Know some mates that might be interested

The Java one? Quite simple:
- We will give you a URL to one of our staging servers for a restful webservice
- The candidate will on his laptop/PC run Eclipse with Tomcat (preferably Tomcat 8 and JDK1.8)
- He will create a web-project which consists of two JSPs: page-1 is a simple search form, page-2 is the search result
- page-1 will execute a JSON webservice
- page-2 will render the results
- bonus points: make it look good, implement infinite scrolling, show that you can abstract presentation logic from the network layer (think MVC)
- export the project as a zip file and mail it
- I should be able to import and run it without any issues - other than deploying the web-project to my local Tomcat IDE config)
- super bonus points (had one candidate also deliver a mini Android app doing the same)
- negative pointsL if you are too lazy and copy the bidorbuy stylesheets and HTML markup

So from the above you will see it really requires just two things: smarts & enthusiasm. This is btw the same screening test I extend to Java perm candidates and not a single one showed interest (i.e. the only comment I ever received "I am too busy for this, I will look elsewhere")

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

For completeness find below what screening-test we use for Linux staff (we typically use it for interns, but recently use it for Linux admins as well):

- Explain how you set up a Linux server (CentOS 7 is preferred). Also explain how you disable SELinux.
- Explain how you setup HTTP connecting via mod_ajp/mod_jk to a Tomcat (preferably v8 with JDK 1.8)
- Bonus points will be if you do a simple JSP on Tomcat which connects to a local MySQL DB
- Intern only: You should have some basic knowledge about Linux - but if manage to pull the above off and then walk us through your approach, this would result in a hire in any case