Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 21/Jul/20 07:12, Mel Beckman wrote: > Mark, > > There are a slew of fine SDN products out there, from VMware NSX-T in big > enterprise to Ubiquiti UniFiOS in SMBs, and lots of other products aimed at > various market niches. What failed about the original SDN academic vision, > more or les

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Mel Beckman
Mark, There are a slew of fine SDN products out there, from VMware NSX-T in big enterprise to Ubiquiti UniFiOS in SMBs, and lots of other products aimed at various market niches. What failed about the original SDN academic vision, more or less, was standardized, vendor-agnostic SDN based on pro

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 20/Jul/20 23:59, Brandon Martin wrote: > Pass given to those who cram them into a "certificates" or "specifics" > line or similar in order to get around HR filters, limit them to major > certs (or ones your HR dept. specifically demanded), and don't really > mention them otherwise.  Bear in

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Brandon Martin
On 7/20/20 4:02 PM, William Herrin wrote: I find there's a strong INVERSE correlation between the quantity of certificates on an applicant's resume and their ability to do the job. I still have to laugh about the guy who let me know via his resume that he was certified in setting up Kentrox CSU/D

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Randy Bush
>> I find there's a strong INVERSE correlation between the quantity of >> certificates on an applicant's resume and their ability to do the >> job. > > Never got a certificate, don't want one either :) but now you can get an ncc certificate, certifying that you can actually use their product. ho

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Sander Steffann
> I find there's a strong INVERSE correlation between the quantity of > certificates on an applicant's resume and their ability to do the > job. Never got a certificate, don't want one either :) Sander signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/20/20 1:02 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:09 AM Mark Tinka wrote: We'll probably spend 95% of the time just talking about who they are, and 5% on the role. That has worked well for me in the past decade, and none of those hires had any "certificates" to impress me wi

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:09 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > We'll probably spend 95% of the time just talking about who they are, > and 5% on the role. That has worked well for me in the past decade, and > none of those hires had any "certificates" to impress me with, even > though those that didn't make

RE: Issues with deliverability to hotmail -- any Microsoft contacts?

2020-07-20 Thread Tony Wicks
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Issues with deliverability to hotmail -- any Microsoft contacts?

2020-07-20 Thread Brock Tice
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Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 14/Jul/20 22:36, William Herrin wrote: > > You know what job you're interviewing for. What you choose to talk > about tells me volumes about how you think. I'm for this, too. I just like to talk to people, about themselves, and figure out who they are as a person. Once in a while, I'll th

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 14/Jul/20 22:14, Matthew Petach wrote: > > I *love* questions like that, because I can immediately respond back > with "well, that depends; did your sysadmin configure rfc1323 > extension support in your TCP stack?  Is SACK enabled?  What about > window scaling?  Does your OS do dynamic buff