Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

- On Jul 14, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: Hi, > Depending on how the interviewer responds gives me a pretty good idea how much > clue the people I'd be working with have, and how well they work > collaboratively even with people they don't really know. If they respond well > on

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

My first question was always: Who was Jon Postel? -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, +1 (360) 474-7474 > >

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 10:49 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I had a screening interview at Google where the screener asked some ridiculous question that nobody not straight out of school would know, and even then not likely. I was like, wtf? If that's how they treat candidates -- and from everything I've

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

I was once asked at a FANG interview how I would affect incoming traffic using BGP. I listed the usual offenders like AS path and med. He kept asking how else, to which after pondering I said that I cant think of other ways right now. He was insisting I find one, so I theorized on using more

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

Should I do another session let’s say tomorrow and y’all join live and share your thoughts? ;-) On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 14:24 Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno wrote: > >> 15 years ago, I applied to a network

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno > wrote: 15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for their corporate office, not even the production network. I had less than two years

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 1:25 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: - If someone asks me to do an algorithm or coding question, I generally tell them to pound sand; that I generally use the language statement or a standard library, or look up hard stuff in Knuth - and then ask them if they'd like to discuss the

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:26 PM wrote: > > William Herrin > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:32 PM > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin > > wrote: > > > >> I am

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 1:23 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- mpet...@netflight.com wrote: From: Matthew Petach On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno wrote: I had less than two years experience. The interviewer asked me: [...] 2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America and Europe,

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 1:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno > wrote: 15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for their corporate office, not even the production network. I had less than two years

RE: questions asked during network engineer interview

> William Herrin > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 8:32 PM > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin > wrote: > > >> I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet > > >>

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

More systems engineer than network engineer - though most of the systems I've worked on have been things like network management, and large, distributed, networked systems. Anyway... I generally ask people: 1. Tell me about yourself:  A good way to find out how someone thinks about

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

--- mpet...@netflight.com wrote: From: Matthew Petach On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno wrote: > I had less than two years experience. > > The interviewer asked me: > [...] > 2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America and > Europe, how much time do we need,

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno wrote: > 15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for > their corporate office, not even the production network. > > I had less than two years experience. > > The interviewer asked me: > [...] > 2) If we had a 1GB file that we

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 12:32 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas wrote: On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin wrote: I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure and today's topics

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin wrote: > 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. I'm also a fan of

RE: questions asked during network engineer interview

This is exactly why the espresso network looks like it does… Have you seen the advert for network architect position at google? Bunch of programming languages and that’s enough apparently. adam From: NANOG On Behalf Of Ahmed elBorno Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 6:57 PM To: Michael Thomas

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:59 AM Ahmed elBorno wrote: > > 15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for their > corporate office, not even the production network. > > I had less than two years experience. > > The interviewer asked me: > > 1) What is the difference between

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin wrote: > >> I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure > >> and today's topics were, your favorite questions asked

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin 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

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin 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

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 11:19 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: On 2020-07-14 1:55 p.m., Michael Thomas wrote: But I try as much as possible to put candidates at ease because I know that not everybody reacts to interviews the same, which is sadly not the case far too often. Mike I often ask a question

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 2020-07-14 1:55 p.m., Michael Thomas wrote: But I try as much as possible to put candidates at ease because I know that not everybody reacts to interviews the same, which is sadly not the case far too often. Mike I often ask a question early in the interview to the effect of "Tell me

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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for their corporate office, not even the production network. I had less than two years experience. The interviewer asked me: 1) What is the difference between flow balancing techniques on Cisco IOS and Linux? 2) If we had a 1GB

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 10:46 AM, Shawn L via NANOG wrote: I completely agree.  One of the people I used to do interviews with would look through the resume, etc. and then say something like "this all looks good. Tell me about something you've done".  And we'd move on to talk about projects and how they

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/14/20 10:33 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jul 14, 2020, at 10:20 , Michael Thomas > wrote: I once failed a network engineering interview because I couldn’t recite the OSPF LSA types by number from memory. It was fine, the fact that was a key question in the interview

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

I completely agree. One of the people I used to do interviews with would look through the resume, etc. and then say something like "this all looks good. Tell me about something you've done". And we'd move on to talk about projects and how they tackled it, etc. We didn't give tests, just

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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

> On Jul 14, 2020, at 10:20 , Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > On 7/13/20 8:16 PM, Greg Skinner via NANOG wrote: >> If you ever decide to revisit this subject, I recall it was covered here in >> this thread started by Bill Herrin >>

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

On 7/13/20 8:16 PM, Greg Skinner via NANOG wrote: If you ever decide to revisit this subject, I recall it was covered here in this thread started by Bill Herrin . My general feelings on the subject of tech interviews are

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

If you ever decide to revisit this subject, I recall it was covered here in this thread started by Bill Herrin . My general feelings on the subject of tech interviews are summarized in the “interview anti-loop” section of this

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