[154637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Fri Jul 6 18:08:36 2012
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FF70945.4050507@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 16:12, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:42:42 +1000, Matthew Palmer said:
>>> Ugh, I know someone (thankfully no longer a current colleague) who ardently
>>> *defends* his use of questions like "what does the -M option to ps do?" on
>> Is that an African ps or a European ps? ;)
> I'll admit that I once asked a question like in an interview, but it was
> only because the candidate had said that he was an expert with the "tar"
> command. If you're going to be that full of poop on a CV, you should
> expect to be called up on it.
This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that
they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know
SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200
response is.
-Dan
