Hostinger Hires Linux Sysadmins on Their Own Terms with Equip

About Hostinger

Hostinger is a web hosting and cloud services company headquartered in Kaunas, Lithuania. Founded in 2004 as Hosting Media and rebranded to Hostinger in 2011, the company offers shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, managed WordPress hosting, email hosting, domain registration, and a website builder.

Hostinger serves over 5 million users across 150+ countries, with operations supported by ten data centers in eight countries — Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The company employs more than 1,000 people across product, engineering, infrastructure, and support functions. Running hosting infrastructure at this scale depends on a deep bench of Linux systems talent, which sets the bar high for sysadmin hiring.

Role hired for via Equip

Linux System Administrator

Skills assessed for

Shell scripting (Bash), system and service management (systemd), networking (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls), user and permission management, security hardening, configuration management (Ansible), troubleshooting and log analysis

Screening Linux sysadmin candidates on niche skills

Hostinger's hosting infrastructure runs on Linux, and the systems administrators who keep it up need real depth across Bash scripting, systemd service management, TCP/IP and DNS networking, user and permission models, security hardening, and configuration management with Ansible. Generic, off-the-shelf MCQ tests do not cover this stack with enough rigour to separate strong candidates from weak ones.

Before Equip, Hostinger's recruiters were spending significant time on manual resume screening just to reach a shortlist worth interviewing and even then, the early-stage signal on whether a candidate could actually troubleshoot a production system was thin.

Custom Linux assessments with proctoring

Hostinger built tailored sysadmin assessments on Equip by mixing question formats: multiple choice for breadth across topics, markdown questions for configuration and code-block answers, and short open-ended text questions for troubleshooting and log-analysis scenarios. They also combine their own custom items with questions pulled from Equip's existing question bank where the topic overlap is useful.

Every assessment is run with Equip's proctoring suite — webcam monitoring, browser lockdown, copy-paste prevention, and tab-switch detection — to keep remote-assessment integrity high in rounds where commands and configurations could otherwise be looked up mid-test.

A faster, more rigorous sysadmin pipeline

With Equip in place, Hostinger's recruiters get a structured, objective view of each candidate's Linux ability before committing a human interview slot — covering scripting, services, networking, security, and configuration management in a single sitting. Manual resume screening is no longer the bottleneck it used to be.

The mix of MCQ, markdown, and open-ended formats means weak candidates surface quickly while stronger candidates have room to demonstrate depth on troubleshooting and hardening questions that a multiple-choice test alone would never capture.

Favourite Equip Features

Hostinger leans on a few Equip capabilities in particular. Custom quizzes give them full control over what a Linux sysadmin candidate is asked, so the assessment stays close to the work the role actually involves. The combination of MCQ, markdown, and short open-ended text answers lets them test recall, configuration writing, and troubleshooting reasoning in the same sitting. And Equip's proctoring keeps remote rounds trustworthy even when the questions involve commands or configs that would otherwise be a quick search away.

Why Equip

Hostinger evaluated assessment platforms against two specific needs: the ability to author questions in formats that fit a Linux sysadmin's actual work — code blocks, configuration snippets, open-ended troubleshooting answers — and the ability to run those assessments under proctoring strong enough to trust the result. Equip met both. Custom quizzes, markdown questions, and short-text answers combine cleanly with items from Equip's own question bank, and the proctoring suite is built in rather than bolted on.

Bringing screening, assessments, and proctoring into one platform also meant Hostinger's hiring team did not have to stitch results together across separate tools. Every signal on a candidate lives alongside their assessment record.

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Hostinger particularly likes being able to fully customise tests for niche sysadmin skills while still pulling in items from Equip's existing question bank where the topic overlap is useful. This combination saves authoring time without sacrificing fit.

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