questions asked during network engineer interview

Tue Jul 14 19:32:12 UTC 2020

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's a good start. First thing the browser does decide whether
that's a URL or a search question. How does it decide? And then what
happens?

I will prompt you to keep talking. After all, I'm rooting for you to
succeed so that I can hire you.

-Bill

-- 
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
https://bill.herrin.us/