[180593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Jun 7 22:57:39 2015
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Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> 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.
Original RFC editor. Invented Perl, among other things. Co-designed DNS
(did I get that right?) I personally always label layers 8, 9, and 10
as money, management and inside counsel, but I know views differ. I don't
RTFM, I google. It's often faster, so many of TFMs are online now.
And this... is NANOG!
What's my starting rate? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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