On 06/15/2010 07:14 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: > I'm afraid I have found HR departments filter out a lot of good people for > questionable reasons. I think they just don't understand technical > resumes and simply get it wrong.
Coming out of a long conference call, having to listen to 2 CCIE-s trying to push a passive ftp through a nat and a firewall (unsuccessfully, mind you) for 3 hours, I couldn't agree more ;) > I've seen this happen as a member of interview panels - I know the resumes > handed to me for a senior position can't be the best people who applied. > > On the plus side this seems to be less of a problem than it was 5-10 years > ago. On a double plus side, those individuals who do not have the "right certificates" are probably better off not working for such companies. [..] > In a real situation I ask a combination of technical and non-technical > questions but if I have to choose _one_ I'll make it a technical question: > > * Describe a TCP 3-way handshake to me. > > This is one of the stock questions I always ask in interviews. Incidentally, thats the first question you will be asked in a Google phone screen. Not the technical screen, the answer is so simple they've put it in their recruiting drones' scripts ;) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
