[180534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Sat Jun 6 06:55:31 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBifr_dJA6M+A3LkE-pwBwEDsPW96gKncsS_87yQm7kk8Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 06:53:20 -0400
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it=E2=80=9D
=
-Santayana
Quite relevant in our industry that seems be more hell bent on rehashing =
ideas
and plot lines than Hollywood.
-dorian
> On Jun 6, 2015, at 6:43 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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 :)
>=20
> I would also add Ritchie, Thompson, and Diffie to that list (since you
> ask about Larry, it's only appropriate).
>=20
> 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.
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> --
>>> Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
>>>=20
