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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:09:39 -0700
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net> wrote:
I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure and today's topics were, your favorite questions asked network engineers - you can watch the recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M if you have suggestions on topics to cover helping network operations engineering that you want to see in here, please feel free to contact me off-list, and let's create unique content that can be helpful to others.
"What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser bar and hit enter?" is one of my favorite questions. Half the field of computing happens next. Keyboard interrupts fire. Bits are poked in dram, sram, maybe even tcam. Packets are sent. Fonts are composed into pixels. There's a crazy amount you can talk about and the right answer is: string things together in order for 5 or 10 minutes without getting anything horribly wrong. And the best parts: With the choices they make, they'll tell you exactly how deep their knowledge goes. So it works for all tech hires, junior to senior, sysadmin, developer, network engineer, whatever. It's an oral question, you don't have to write or draw anything to answer, so you can use it in a phone screen. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill () herrin us https://bill.herrin.us/
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- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 20)
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