questions asked during network engineer interview

Tue Jul 14 22:27:54 UTC 2020

Should I do another session let’s say tomorrow and y’all join live and
share your thoughts? ;-)

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 14:24 Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:

> On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno <amaged at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for
>> their corporate office, not even the production network.
>>
>> I had less than two years experience.
>>
>> The interviewer asked me:
>> [...]
>> 2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America and
>> Europe, how much time do we need, knowing that we start with a TCP size of X
>>
>
> Well, the first question is the available end-to-end bandwidth.  Pretty
> much everything else is irrelevant.
>
> Of course, I might ask them what they mean by "size."
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
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