[180758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Jun 10 09:17:13 2015
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:49:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Ronan" <shane@ronan-online.com>
> 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.
Maybe. But they certainly saved you from having to work for an asshole
with misplaced priorities...
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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