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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 XWell, 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 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown --
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- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview, (continued)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Ahmed elBorno (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Miles Fidelman (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Joe Hamelin (Jul 14)
- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Matthew Petach (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Miles Fidelman (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mehmet Akcin (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Sabri Berisha (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Here At InfoChambers (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Andrey Khomyakov (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Greg Skinner via NANOG (Jul 24)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 14)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 14)