[154589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy)
Fri Jul 6 00:39:44 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:39:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXnDHBRWNSQURdjHA=kcm7ZDb1HCRADPPk7dSVez7Hk5w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- On Thu, 7/5/12, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
> Subject: Re: job screening question
> To: "Randy" <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Date: Thursday, July 5, 2012, 6:33 PM
> > Can you post a sample of the
> "answers" you have received; which
> > prompted you the ask this question to begin with.
>
> I've been asking the question in phone interviews for
> months. I
> couldn't quote them properly but the answers were...
> discouraging. No
> one beyond ping and traceroute.
>
> I asked HR last week to start asking the question as a
> pre-screen and
> forward me the answer. The first one responded "This would
> block all
> IP traffic." I figured it was time for a sanity check to
> make sure the
> question was reasonable.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
yes....in that reagard, "resonable".
It is a shame that -
Noc-Techs; these days are classified as:
1) Network Engineers/Prouction Engineers/Customer Support Engineers/Sr. Tech Support Engineers....
Enough Said.
./Randy
