Completed interview. Surprisingly they had the behavioral portion first, which seemed backwards since the technical interview was pass/fail. Seems like they wouldn't want to waste their time if someone wasn't up to technical snuff.

Anyway, behavioral was easy. I wasn't nervous at all. Was 3 managers: cyber, physical/SOC, and infrastructure.

Lunch was nice.

Tech interview was interesting. Won't go into too much detail on that as it obviously would be different depending on where one was applying, etc.

I will say it encompassed all 7 layers of the OSI model and layer 8 is always the hardest to troubleshoot (ha!). It was much more in the realm of Desktop Support troubleshooting, which I haven't done in a while.

I don't know yet if I passed or failed the tech portion, and thus if I passed the interview. But what I will say is, despite its stressful nature, I liked that method MUCH more than the typical BS tech interview questions. Being able to see and click and think through something was much more realistic and indicative of skill sets than being asked random factoids.

Regardless of if I get the position or not, wherever I end up I plan to recommend and develop a similar technical interview process if possible; it was just that good. It was probably the most fun interview I've been on in a while.

Today is a skype call with company 2. Just wasn't able to make getting over to them work in conjunction with the tight flight schedule yesterday.