One time I got asked in an interview how to estimate the number of manholes in a city. I replied that I would google 'pretentious interview questions' for a problem solving methodology.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:06 AM <adamv0...@netconsultings.com> wrote: > > Mark Tinka > > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:04 AM > > > > On 23/Jul/20 01:04, Brandon Martin wrote: > > > > > > > > Of course, there's also plenty of folks out there without them or any > > > certs at all that are just as useful in practice. Getting those > > > particular certifications does, however, seem to be a useful path to > > > learning things that are actually of use in the "real world". I look > > > at such certificates similar to how I'd look at a 2- or 4-year degree > > > in a related IT field and just a somewhat different, and perhaps more > > > approachable for the self-coached or differently-learning, path. > > > > We live in a time where I am concerned about the engineers we > > are creating, where point & click seems to trump basic understanding + > CLI > > knowledge. My concern is when it all goes to hell at 3AM, do the next > > generation of network engineers have the base fundamentals to understand > > why iBGP isn't coming up, even though you can "ping" and IGP adjacencies > > are up and stable? > > > Hopefully well end up in a world where all checks one can do to figure out > why iBGP session is down along with suggested corrective actions will be > coded in some network self-healing workflow. > But to answer your question, probably no, cause current industry is > systematically converting network engineers into coders. > > adam > > >