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RE: questions asked during network engineer interview
From: <adamv0025 () netconsultings com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:50:30 +0100
William Herrin Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 9:02 PM 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.
One can't be an expert in many areas, (like CCIE-everything... folks) Same as Usain Bolt can't swim like Michael Phelps...
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.
Nice, did he also knew how to put a loop on a T1/T3 DACS (DCX) or how to do SNA to mainframe and then DLSW? :) very useful skills these days indeed. <sigh>technology used to be much simpler. adam
Current thread:
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview, (continued)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 22)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Robert Raszuk (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Valdis Klētnieks (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 22)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 22)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Mark Tinka (Jul 22)
- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 22)
- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 21)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview William Herrin (Jul 22)
- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview Michael Thomas (Jul 14)
- RE: questions asked during network engineer interview adamv0025 (Jul 22)