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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:08:06 +0200
On 14/Jul/20 22:36, William Herrin wrote:
You know what job you're interviewing for. What you choose to talk about tells me volumes about how you think.
I'm for this, too. I just like to talk to people, about themselves, and figure out who they are as a person. Once in a while, I'll throw in a question about the role they are interviewing for, let them talk about it, and then go back to just talking to them, about themselves, as a person. It's a different world nowadays to what it was 20 years ago. There is so much information out there to make anyone an expert, so I'm not keen on turning interviews into finals exam rooms. A person's essential character is far more appealing to me, since their ability to embrace and adapt to changes in culture is why they are most likely to be a good fit. We'll probably spend 95% of the time just talking about who they are, and 5% on the role. That has worked well for me in the past decade, and none of those hires had any "certificates" to impress me with, even though those that didn't make it, did. Mark.
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