Also if you are compliance based organization, I would be asked what experience they have working with PCI/SOX/GLBA/HIPAA/HITECH etc etc in the design and setup of the systems they have supported.
I would also ask them the "soft skills" questions about how they communicate both up the chain ( to Senior Management) and down the chain ( to operations, Desktop support etc etc) But I do like the scenario based questions with the Lab to work on a broken item to see how long it took to fix or where to go with it. ( Nice interactive Interview J) One of my favorite Net engineer questions, is based on access lists, basically do a dump of a router ACL and make them tell you based on this scenario and the acl you have in front of you, why can't I get access to this set of devices. Also questions about ingress/egress filtering on firewalls, process wrapper, routing protocol etc etc are fun. Hell throw in some IPV6 zingers for good measure. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: looking for favorite Network Engineer interview questions Dave, While there are plenty of standard questions you can ask, I would recommend the following three approaches for obtaining key questions that help you probe the skill of a candidate: #1 - Ask them for challenging issues that they dealt with in their own experience for the subject matter that you are concerned about (AD, in this case). They should relay at least one situation where they were successful after some difficulty, and one that has yet to be addressed. #2 - Present them a scenario of some situation you have experienced in your own environment that was difficult to solve, and without providing them the final answer, see how they would attempt to solve it. #3 - Give them an expansion scenario (new office in another city, merger, etc) and tell them to order some equipment and setup a configuration to support it. The responses they give you here will help you with being able to assess their knowledge, their troubleshooting approach, and their creativity. It's the next best thing to what Micheal experienced for his interview, and it gets past all the tedium of asking questions that people don't actually have to remember off the top of their heads in realworld situations when they can very easily google them. ASB (Find me online via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio> ) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Eldridge, Dave <d...@parkviewmc.com> wrote: We are going to be hiring 2 additional "Network Engineers" very soon as 1 is leaving and we have approval to add 1 more. The bulk of the questions that I get to ask will be AD related as past experience has dictated that I need that level of expertise here. Those of you that do hiring what are some questions you are using in the interview process? We are a 2003 domain with exchange 2003. We will be migrating to 2008 domain and exchange 2010 next year. This is not a Sr. level job but we are looking for an experienced person. Thanks much for any feedback. dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
