[97404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 24x7 Support Strategies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Jun 14 08:08:10 2007
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:58:13 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <46712B18.4060801@spacething.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I find that within 15 mins of any interview I have accurately judged the
technical competence of most candidates...
Sam Stickland wrote:
>
> Joe Abley wrote:
>>
>> On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on
>>> a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a
>>> garanteed response time? How about CCNP?
>>
>> Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence of
>> vendor certifications on a resume when judging the capabilities of an
>> engineer?
>>
>> There's no correlation between certification and capability, in my
>> experience.
> I fully agree with you Joe, but I needed to quantify the level of
> technical expertise somehow. I think most people have some kind of a
> feel for what level we are talking about if we say "equivalent
> techincal ability to CCIE", even if there are CCIEs out there who are
> useless ;)
>
> S
