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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:21:24 -0700
On 7/20/20 1:02 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:09 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com> wrote: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.I find there's a strong INVERSE correlation between the quantity of certificates on an applicant's resume and their ability to do the job. I still have to laugh about the guy who let me know via his resume that he was certified in setting up Kentrox CSU/DSUs.
It's like all of these programming bootcamps that are cropping up these days. I'd frankly be a lot more impressed by somebody who is green but self-taught. That at least shows initiative.
Mike
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- 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 William Herrin (Jul 14)
- 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)
- 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)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Sander Steffann (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Randy Bush (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Nathan Stratton (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Brandon Martin (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mel Beckman (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 20)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mel Beckman (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mel Beckman (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)