A friend of mine just came back from a sysadmin interview at a large nationwide insurance company. They asked the "TCP handshake" question, and unfortunately he's not much of a networking guy, so he said "I didn't memorize that. If I needed to know it, I'd look it up". Which would, at least to me, be an acceptable answer if someone asked you the order of the header fields, or something like that. It pretty much goes without saying that he didn't get the job. He came back and told me that, and I said "uhhh, yeah....actually, that's a pretty important bit of information", then explained it.
He's still looking. --Matt On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Robert Brockway <rob...@timetraveller.org> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > > I wrote: > >>> * 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 ;) > > Maybe 5 or 6 years ago I posted a couple of my stock interview questions > to a list (might have been SAGE). One of the stock questions is the TCP > one above and another one concerns ICMP and firewalls. I subsequently > found out that both questions occur in Google interviews. > > I guess they're just good questions ;) > > Rob > > -- > Email: rob...@timetraveller.org Linux counter ID #16440 > IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) > Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com > Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ 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/
