questions asked during network engineer interview

Tue Jul 14 19:09:39 UTC 2020

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net> wrote:
> I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure and today's topics were, your favorite questions asked network engineers - you can watch the recording here
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M
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> if you have suggestions on topics to cover helping network operations engineering that you want to see in here, please feel free to contact me off-list, and let's create unique content that can be helpful to others.

"What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser bar and hit
enter?" is one of my favorite questions. Half the field of computing
happens next. Keyboard interrupts fire. Bits are poked in dram, sram,
maybe even tcam. Packets are sent. Fonts are composed into pixels.
There's a crazy amount you can talk about and the right answer is:
string things together in order for 5 or 10 minutes without getting
anything horribly wrong.

And the best parts:

With the choices they make, they'll tell you exactly how deep their
knowledge goes. So it works for all tech hires, junior to senior,
sysadmin, developer, network engineer, whatever.

It's an oral question, you don't have to write or draw anything to
answer, so you can use it in a phone screen.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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