Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jul 21, 2020, at 2:58 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.com> wrote:
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> On 21/Jul/20 22:20, Nick Hilliard wrote:
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>> 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.
> 
> We all could benefit from a sufficient degree of automation, whatever
> that means to you.
> 
> That the cloud bags can throw warm bodies at the problem even more than
> traditional vendors can is an advantage unique to them, even though they
> are not network service providers in the strict sense of the term. This
> is what leads to the divergence in our expectations, to some extent.

That word advantage… I do not think it means what you appear to think it means
in this context. At least not based on some of my experiences with some
of their implementations of certain basic networking features.

Owen