Sami Juvonen wrote: > This is a curious business - everybody in it has an inflated sense of > their own skills. And your peers are quick to judge if you don't know > the one bit of trivia they consider essential.
This is a hard one. I've gone on interviews where the major questions were obscure failure situations they encountered several years and several OS/hardware revisions back, or (my favorite), "which commands would you run on the very-important-production-database-server to optimize it?" I didn't get the job in the second one, because my response was "none that haven't been tested in development". -- -- John E. Jasen ([email protected]) -- No one will sorrow for me when I die, because those who would -- are dead already. -- Lan Mandragoran, The Wheel of Time, New Spring _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
