questions asked during network engineer interview

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Tue Jul 21 20:20:12 UTC 2020


William Herrin wrote on 21/07/2020 20:21:
> This is happening a lot in the big shops like Amazon that can afford
> to employ software developers to write purpose-built network code.

IOW, it works if you have a large and homogeneous enough network with a 
sufficiently narrowly product portfolio that you can justify the cost of 
getting enough programming skill to make the cost/benefit ratio work.

Some networks are like this; many aren't.

In fairness, most networks would benefit from some degree of automation.

Nick




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