[154514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Jul 5 13:36:17 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FF5CC01.6010504@davidcoulson.net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 13:35:17 -0400
To: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:16 PM, David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net> wrote:
> That's a horrible question for a non-technical HR person to pose to a
> candidate - It's impossible for the candidate to ask clarifying questions to
> make sure they understand what you are looking for, plus you may have a
> strong candidate who gets it wrong (for whatever reason), but if they were
> talking to a technical person you would realize they were 99% of the way
> there. What if they said "it would cause the generation of port-unreachable
> ICMP packets to cease, and applications may hang until they timeout"? Not
> the answer you're looking for, but not wrong either.
Hi David,
To clarify: I asked HR to forward me the candidate's answer along with
their resume. Just in case of answers like that one. Which would be
more than enough to proceed to a phone screen directly with me.
Regards,
Bill
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