Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno <amaged () gmail com 
> <mailto:amaged () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was
>     for their corporate office, not even the production network.
>
>     I had less than two years experience.
>
>     The interviewer asked me:
>     [...]
>     2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America
>     and Europe, how much time do we need, knowing that we start with a
>     TCP size of X
Well, the first question is the available end-to-end bandwidth. Pretty 
much everything else is irrelevant.

Of course, I might ask them what they mean by "size."

Miles Fidelman

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