[154548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Jul 5 19:49:16 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 16:48:36 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- diogo.montagner@gmail.com wrote:\
From: Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com>
For screening questions (for 1st level filtering), IMO, the questions
has to be straight to the point, for example:
1) What is the LSA number for an external route in OSPF?
This can have two answer: 5 or 7. So, I will accept if the candidate
answer 5, 7 or 5 and 7. Later on (the next level of the interview), a
techinical interviewer will chech if the candidate understand the
differences of LSA 5 and 7.
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How often do you use this in everyday netgeeking? Asking these
types of questions will assure that you get someone with a vendor
i-drank-the-kool-aid cert because they memorized the answers, but
maybe not the best candidate for the position. However, with some
of today's managers kool-aid certs are looked on as better than an
engineering degree. Go figure... :-(
scott
