----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Hamelin" <j...@nethead.com>
> Back in 2000 at Amazon, HR somehow decided to have me do the phone > interviews for neteng. I'd go through questions on routing and what not, > then at the end I would ask questions like, "Who was Jon Postel? Who > is Larry Wall? Who is Paul Vixie? What are layers 8 & 9? Explain the RTFM > protocol. What is NANOG?" Those answers (or long silences) told me > more about the candidate than most of the technical questions. Original RFC editor. Invented Perl, among other things. Co-designed DNS (did I get that right?) I personally always label layers 8, 9, and 10 as money, management and inside counsel, but I know views differ. I don't RTFM, I google. It's often faster, so many of TFMs are online now. And this... is NANOG! What's my starting rate? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
