[180530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Sat Jun 6 04:52:38 2015
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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 01:50:41 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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--- joe@nethead.com wrote:
From: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
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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Now that's a good interview question series. It shows that
the person cares, rather than just doing a job.
scott
ps. I never thought of RTFM as a protocol, but I like it.
It's a protocol between engineers. The conservative in
what you send part... :-)
