On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > William Herrin > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:32 PM > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet > > > >> infrastructure and today's topics were, your favorite questions > > > >> asked network engineers - you can watch the recording here > > > >> > > > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M > > > >> > > > >> if you have suggestions on topics to cover helping network operations > > engineering that you want to see in here, please feel free to contact me > > off- > > list, and let's create unique content that can be helpful to others. > > > > > > > > "What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser bar > > and > > > > hit enter?" is one of my favorite questions. Half the field of > > > > computing happens next. Keyboard interrupts fire. Bits are poked in > > > > dram, sram, maybe even tcam. Packets are sent. Fonts are composed > > into pixels. > > > > There's a crazy amount you can talk about and the right answer is: > > > > string things together in order for 5 or 10 minutes without getting > > > > anything horribly wrong.
> The question is vague enough for the candidate to start talking just about > anything they like. > What happens where? In the world? In the universe? In my body? > Depending on the position you're hiring for you may want to include the > "where" as well to narrow down the scope of the talk (to say "finger tips" if > you hire a brain surgeon or 2020 laureate of Kavli Prize for Neuroscience for > discover of pressure receptors, or simply to "network" if hiring network > engineer, etc...). You know what job you're interviewing for. What you choose to talk about tells me volumes about how you think. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin [email protected] https://bill.herrin.us/
