[154574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jul 5 22:32:10 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUMcQ7ETFkcjDXt++FveYKsLYSALMcSjuF7_ogGfW-6ww@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:29:14 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 5, 2012, at 6:09 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- On Thu, 7/5/12, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>>> The less precise answer, path MTU discovery breaks, is just
>>> fine.
>>=20
>> Precisely! and if I understand correctly, a non-techinical person
>> within HR is expected to hear this answer and relay it to you?
>> That is more than a long shot. Unless of course they have
>> photographic memories, are great typists or perhaps do
>> "short hand".
>=20
> So I get a garbled answer about disk fragmentation. I can't tell the
> difference between an answer garbled in transit and an answer that was
> flat wrong to begin with?
>=20
I suspect this was a candidate answer about "Packet Fragmentation" (e.g.
the answer you were looking for) and that your HR might have translated
"packet" into "disk" because that's the only place they've heard of =
fragmentation.
> The point of the question is to help me decide which people I want to
> spend half an hour on the phone with and which ones get a polite
> thank-you-not-it from HR while I do the parts of my job that don't
> involve interviewing folks. If there's any doubt about whether they
> belong in the not-it category, they proceed to the phone interview.
Makes sense, but, the example garbled answer you provided seems
entirely legitimate to me.
>=20
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>=20
> P.S. Yes, I got an answer about "degrading DNS port unreachables and
> MTU disk fragmenting as well." I asked HR to set up a phone interview.
> If that wasn't an HR garble, I *really* want to hear the explanation.
> :D
>=20
Yep... Pretty sure that everything you listed here so far would be an HR =
garble
of a legitimately correct (within your parameters) answer.
Owen
