[180533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Sat Jun 6 06:43:25 2015
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From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 06:43:01 -0400
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
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My first thought on reading that was "who the hell cares if a person
knows about internet culture". But than I had to reconsider - it's a
very apt way of telling if someone read the right books :)
I would also add Ritchie, Thompson, and Diffie to that list (since you
ask about Larry, it's only appropriate).
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:32 AM, jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember you asking me who Jon was :) I have since added to my list of
> interview questions... sad but the number of people with clue is declining
> not increasing.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
>>
