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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview


From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:27:54 -0700

Should I do another session let’s say tomorrow and y’all join live and
share your thoughts? ;-)

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 14:24 Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
wrote:

On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:



On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno <amaged () gmail com> wrote:

15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for
their corporate office, not even the production network.

I had less than two years experience.

The interviewer asked me:
[...]
2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America and
Europe, how much time do we need, knowing that we start with a TCP size of X


Well, the first question is the available end-to-end bandwidth.  Pretty
much everything else is irrelevant.

Of course, I might ask them what they mean by "size."

Miles Fidelman

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