[154723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Tue Jul 10 00:41:26 2012
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:35:22 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUTE-x8xqSsN9=w55zX+OEgi9WfDgYnp-yuKFCrD3w29w@mail.gmail.com>
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William Herrin wrote:
> This is, incidentally, is a detail I'd love for one of the candidates
> to offer in response to that question. Bonus points if you discuss MSS
> clamping and RFC 4821.
>
> The less precise answer, path MTU discovery breaks, is just fine.
I would say that the ability to quickly understand, troubleshoot and
find a solution to a problem (and document it) is a far better skill to
have than having ready made answers to interview questions learned by heart.
It should take a skilled person less than 30 minutes to find the answer
to that question and understand it too. The importance of knowing many
things by heart has become incredibly moot.
Greetings,
Jeroen
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