Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

I come from the “we’ve had SDN for years, it’s called L2VPN” but I guess the rest of the world hasn’t been a carrier 
for 26yrs either.
-Ben

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> On Jul 20, 2020, at 9:55 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com> wrote:
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> On 20/Jul/20 23:59, Brandon Martin wrote:
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> > Pass given to those who cram them into a "certificates" or "specifics"
> > line or similar in order to get around HR filters, limit them to major
> > certs (or ones your HR dept. specifically demanded), and don't really
> > mention them otherwise.  Bear in mind as well that, even if your
> > hiring process doesn't demand them, others' will, and many people have
> > a standard-ish resume with application-specific cover letter.
>
> When SDN was all the rage in the middle of the past decade, our HR
> department wanted to hire someone in this field and asked me what type
> of qualifications and certifications they should be looking for. Well, I
> told them to look for someone who had enough will and time to figure out
> what it means to us, and the patience to experiment, fail and experiment
> again, without losing any steam or confidence, and take a pass on any
> SDN certifications recommended by our "recruiting consultants".
>
> We ended up hiring a regular (but very good) network engineer who had
> recently taken up an interest in understanding and writing software to
> perform repetitive tasks. It was just a shame they chose not join at the
> last minute, but we weren't the worse off for it either.
>
> At the time, everyone and their arm rest were offering some kind of
> SDN-workshop-certification thingy.
>
> Suffice it to say, to this day, we still don't know what SDN means to
> us, hehe.
>
> Mark.