[180636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ryanL)
Mon Jun 8 22:41:16 2015
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From: ryanL <ryan.landry@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 02:40:58 +0000
To: Shane Ronan <shane@ronan-online.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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i don't think certs have ruined the industry. bad interviewing and
recruiting, maybe...
asking encyclopedia-type "gotcha" questions are the most inane test of
someone's ability to perform well at the job. i promise you - you didn't
want to work for this person anyways.
got a cert? great. but let's whiteboard a real-world problem and see how
you do. i won't play you into a trap.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:11 PM Shane Ronan <shane@ronan-online.com> wrote:
> When I was asked the default BGP timers across three different vendor
> platforms as measure of my networking ability during an interview, I
> replied saying I'd look them up if needed them.
>
> I was told I didn't understand BGP in enough detail, despite being able to
> describe all the steps of BGP session establishment and route exchange.
>
> Certs have ruined the industry.
>
