On Aug 30, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2010, Luke S Crawford wrote:Adam Moskowitz <[email protected]> writes:"Tinkerer Check: What is Your Home Network Like?" Despite later saying claiming to not discount candidates who aren't netadmins in their own homes, this question clearly does exactly that. There are plenty of goodcandidates out there who leave their job at the office, run the most simple and basic network at home, and who put their "enthusiasm and curiosity" into non-technical things outside of work.yes, but if I hire a guy who thinks about these problems on his own time, and I feed him (or her) problems that are more interesting that what they have at home, I get the benifit of his 'time in the shower' I mean, the 'top idea in your head'[1] is generally thought to be something that you think about in the background. something you come up with solutions for in the shower.One way I look at things is that network and System administration isstill a rapidly evolving field. Somebody who only does it 9-5 is going to be concentrating on the problems in front of them and not keeping up withhow the field is evolving.
I probably shouldn't stick an oar in, since I've been retired for so long, but hey...
Just because someone does want to run a whiz-bang network in their own home doesn't mean they're not interesting in the evolution of the field... When I was running the vast bulk of the central Unix systems at Dartmouth, eons ago, the *last* thing I wanted to do was to come home and tinker with more of it. That didn't mean, though, that I worked only 9-5, never read technical papers (look at early LISA program committee members), or didn't have technical discussions outside of work - I just didn't see the need for a lot of technology at home.
Everyone's mileage varies. To assume that someone who keeps a work/ home technology separation isn't interested or involved in the field seems fairly unhelpful when you're looking for good candidates to employ.
--paw
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