questions asked during network engineer interview

Tue Jul 14 19:15:55 UTC 2020

On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> 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
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M
>>
>> 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.

Oh, I thought this was a trick question of whether it takes you directly 
to google, or does a search.

Mike, i failed that interview i guess