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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:15:55 -0700


On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net> wrote:
I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure and today's topics were, your favorite 
questions asked network engineers - you can watch the recording here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M

if you have suggestions on topics to cover helping network operations engineering that you want to see in here, please feel 
free to contact me off-list, and let's create unique content that can be helpful to others.

"What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser bar and hit
enter?" is one of my favorite questions. Half the field of computing
happens next. Keyboard interrupts fire. Bits are poked in dram, sram,
maybe even tcam. Packets are sent. Fonts are composed into pixels.
There's a crazy amount you can talk about and the right answer is:
string things together in order for 5 or 10 minutes without getting
anything horribly wrong.

Oh, I thought this was a trick question of whether it takes you directly to google, or does a search.

Mike, i failed that interview i guess


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