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Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Sat Jun 6 02:15:35 2015

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 23:13:46 -0700
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Back in 2000 at Amazon, HR somehow decided to have me do the phone
interviews for neteng.  I'd go through questions on routing and what not,
then at the end I would ask questions like, "Who was Jon Postel?  Who is
Larry Wall?  Who is Paul Vixie? What are layers 8 & 9? Explain the RTFM
protocol.  What is NANOG?"  Those answers (or long silences) told me more
about the candidate than most of the technical questions.

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Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

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