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RE: questions asked during network engineer interview
From: <adamv0025 () netconsultings com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:26:50 +0100
William Herrin Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:32 PM On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote: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 operationsengineering 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 barandhit 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 composedinto 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.That's a good start. First thing the browser does decide whether that's a URL or a search question. How does it decide? And then what happens? I will prompt you to keep talking. After all, I'm rooting for you to succeed so that I can hire you.
The question is vague enough for the candidate to start talking just about anything they like. What happens where? In the world? In the universe? In my body? Depending on the position you're hiring for you may want to include the "where" as well to narrow down the scope of the talk (to say "finger tips" if you hire a brain surgeon or 2020 laureate of Kavli Prize for Neuroscience for discover of pressure receptors, or simply to "network" if hiring network engineer, etc...). adam
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- Re: questions asked during network engineer interview, (continued)
- 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 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 Michael Thomas (Jul 14)