It looked like it might be a devops position with a smallish family video site. After an NDA (?!!) and some emails, no interview, they set me up with an obscure chat client with a guy for a tryout. He had me set up some services on a new instance, apache, php, firewall, etc, following a checklist they gave. He wouldn't answer any questions about the company. I did this quickly and that was the end of it. In the end, they said no thanks, but did not give any feedback. They paid me for a day of work on Elance :-/ $50 for a couple hours of work.
The bad news is the whole process was super shrouded and I to this day do not know why. The NDA forbade revealing any contacts, who the site was, or anything else. Nobody was willing to give me their name or answer any questions. I guess the vanilla family site could have been a sister/front for a gambling or pr0n or offshore hedgefund company, or ... what? Why bother?
It looked like it might be a devops position with a smallish family video site. After an NDA (?!!) and some emails, no interview, they set me up with an obscure chat client with a guy for a tryout. He had me set up some services on a new instance, apache, php, firewall, etc, following a checklist they gave. He wouldn't answer any questions about the company. I did this quickly and that was the end of it. In the end, they said no thanks, but did not give any feedback. They paid me for a day of work on Elance :-/ $50 for a couple hours of work.
The bad news is the whole process was super shrouded and I to this day do not know why. The NDA forbade revealing any contacts, who the site was, or anything else. Nobody was willing to give me their name or answer any questions. I guess the vanilla family site could have been a sister/front for a gambling or pr0n or offshore hedgefund company, or ... what? Why bother?