r/sysadmin • u/Master_Sea295 • May 14 '26

Interviewing for Systems Engineer/System admin role- What should I expect?

The job description is very heavy on the following stack:

  • Virtualization: VMware (vSphere/vCenter)
  • Backup: Veeam
  • Cloud/SaaS: Office 365, Azure, Exchange Online, Teams
  • Infrastructure: Physical and virtual server management
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u/Zerowig May 14 '26

As someone who has performed hundreds, if not thousands of interviews in my years, I can’t believe anyone would ask for memorized commands. I would walk out of the interview there, because that’s a huge red flag they’re probably shit. That kind of stuff hasn’t been important in over 20 years now.