On May 7, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks "What > is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question is, "Why is it > important to understand the three way handshake?" This is why I hate trivia questions as a gauge of skill. "What flag to date(1) will spit out time in seconds since epoch?" "What's the numerical file descriptor for standard error?" "What port does DNS listen on?" If someone gets a few of these wrong in a row, they start thinking "Oh crap, I'm bombing this interview" and shut down. At that point you're less and less likely to get anything useful out of them. -- Corey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
