Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

[Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>]

I am trying to have a 2nd session tomorrow to go over all discussions here.

who would like to join me live on this session and talk about interview
questions, experience for network engineers? please let me know. I plan to
schedule for 11am pacific tomorrow

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 6:32 AM Michael Douglas <Michael.Douglas () ieee org>
wrote:

> 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