Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

[Michael Douglas <Michael.Douglas () ieee org>]

One time I got asked in an interview how to estimate the number of manholes
in a city.  I replied that I would google 'pretentious interview questions'
for a problem solving methodology.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:06 AM <adamv0025 () netconsultings com> wrote:

> > Mark Tinka
> > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:04 AM
> >
> > On 23/Jul/20 01:04, Brandon Martin wrote:
> >
> > > Of course, there's also plenty of folks out there without them or any
> > > certs at all that are just as useful in practice.  Getting those
> > > particular certifications does, however, seem to be a useful path to
> > > learning things that are actually of use in the "real world".  I look
> > > at such certificates similar to how I'd look at a 2- or 4-year degree
> > > in a related IT field and just a somewhat different, and perhaps more
> > > approachable for the self-coached or differently-learning, path.
> >
> > We live in a time where I am concerned about the engineers we
> > are creating, where point & click seems to trump basic understanding +
> CLI
> > knowledge. My concern is when it all goes to hell at 3AM, do the next
> > generation of network engineers have the base fundamentals to understand
> > why iBGP isn't coming up, even though you can "ping" and IGP adjacencies
> > are up and stable?
> Hopefully well end up in a world where all checks one can do to figure out
> why iBGP session is down along with suggested corrective actions will be
> coded in some network self-healing workflow.
> But to answer your question, probably no, cause current industry is
> systematically converting network engineers into coders.
>
> adam