[154624] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Fri Jul 6 15:17:12 2012
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:16:18 -0600
In-Reply-To: <ba1dbe950aba3c43a6ccdf708d125640@mail.dessus.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > "A client cannot access the website "http://xyz.com"
>
> >> How does the user know that it cannot access the web site?
>
> > When did users become things?
>
> > Probably a candidate that made this mistake should be dismissed from
> > consideration on that basis alone.
>
> How do you know that the client is a person?
Perhaps "What language is the client written in, and what Operating System =
is it running on?" would be a better response.
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