Completed an entire worksheet with information mentining by technical skills. I clearly put down 5/10 for all my technical skills and mentioned that it was 6+ years since I programmed. So, even after this a Technical Solutions Engineer calls me and asks the below questions. What I don't get it is how come the recruiters don't communicate to the employee what is required and don't communicate to the interviewer the skills of the employee. Questions: 1. What command would you use in Linux to see the current active processes. And how would you find out which is the most cpu/memory intensive process. 2. There is a text file with 500,000+ sentences. In Linux, how would you count the number of sentences that are unique? 3. Advantages/disadvantages between Perl/Java/JavaScript/C++ 4. Assume a file full of numbers. Explain an algorithm to compress losslessly and decompress. Encode with an encoding of your choice 5. What is UTF-8? Explain how it works. 6. Tell me 5 SQL commands 7. Write a C++ (or language of your choice) to count the number of unique characters in a string. This was done with Google Docs and expected that I write the program while the interviewer is watching me write the program. (It was not communicated by the recruiter that I need a PC with internet connection)... so I couldn't do this one. 8. Assume you have a pretty intensive web application. Walk through the advantages/disadvantages of installing the entire applicatin in one system or distribute the application across multiple systems. Well, I couldn't answer half the questions because my background is in project management in the mobile space and all the questins were technical on a servver related space. What I didn't like is the fact that the don't read the resume and act a little more professionally.