Catching up, I see nobody addressed this post.
On 2013-05-07 at 07:56 -0700, Corey Quinn wrote:
> This is why I hate trivia questions as a gauge of skill.
If someone's asking trivia, they're making a mistake. If someone's
asking something that sounds like trivia, there may be a communication
mi
unix_fan wrote:
>Badge reader databases tend to be legacy. In my experience, if you
>acquire a company, the IP networks will be integrated long before the
>badge reader databases are integrated. They are typically purchased
>and managed by Physical Security people (sometimes an outsourced
>functio
Craig Cook wrote:
>>"The Security team had discovered it, was confirming it, but they
have suddenly been locked out of the exfiltration servers and the key
KVM over IP switch. "
>
>First, I am impressed that your company has a security team.
At the 68K employees level it is not that unusua
>"The Security team had discovered it, was confirming it, but they
have suddenly been locked out of the exfiltration servers and the key
KVM over IP switch. "
First, I am impressed that your company has
a security team. Also, the fact that they discovered an incident in
progress is also very
So you have this Salesmen, see? And this Salesman needs to travel across
seven bridges ... and these bridges may or may not exist, see? So this
Salesman needs to travel across these bridges in the shortest amount of
time, while evading the ... authorities. Show me your solution in P time,
and you'r
I haven't replied to this scenario yet because I assumed everyone else
would jump on the obvious (to me)... the proposal contains all of the
things reported as part of the active security incident. I'd first jump
online with the security team and talk where/what they are seeing to
confirm if this
Alan Robertson
>There seem to be a few easy solutions to this...
Right there you should question yourself.
>Log into the switch and disable the port that corresponds to the cable
>to pull. I can do that on even my cheap switches here at home.
>
>Put a rule in the site firewall to shut down
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
>these kind of trick questions are really a terrible thing to do.
>
> It establishes a power dynamic that you don't want in the interview
> 1) Maybe he/she meant TCP, I'll answer that.
> 2) This person doesn't know what they're talking about
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-
> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Hruby
>
> 5) These people are horrible, I don't want this job anymore.
I once had an interview that was so horrible, including a really outdated
aptitude test that the interviewer acknowledged
There seem to be a few easy solutions to this... But I'm an ignoramus -
so correct me ;-)
Log into the switch and disable the port that corresponds to the cable
to pull. I can do that on even my cheap switches here at home.
Put a rule in the site firewall to shut down the attacking IPs, or
No one answered, so I'll take a crack at it.
Atom Powers writes
>To: Michael Tiernan
>
>On May 7, 2013 9:15 AM, "Michael Tiernan" wrote:
>> "Here's a situation,
>> [describe computer version of Kobayashi Maru problem].
>This sounds like fun. What are some of your favorite "unwinnable" probl
On May 9, 2013, at 15:54, Nathan Hruby wrote:
>>
>> 3 and 4 are particularly pernicious as they reinforce the dominant position
>> of the interviewer, which again is not a good place to put an interviewee
>> (or establish in a workplace).
>
> 5) These people are horrible, I don't want this jo
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
>
> 1) Maybe he/she meant TCP, I'll answer that.
> 2) This person doesn't know what they're talking about, I'll humor them with
> a vague answer
> 3) Oh, shit, I had no idea there was such a thing, I'll bluff.
> 4) Oh shit, I had no idea th
+1 for treating people like people sans trick questions
--Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name
On May 9, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> I too have gotten the ubiquitous "TCP handshake" question. Only once
> have I gotten a curve ball from someone with it, the question was
>
> I too have gotten the ubiquitous "TCP handshake" question. Only once
> have I gotten a curve ball from someone with it, the question was
> "What is the UDP three way handshake?" He said he was wondering how
> many people would catch the question's trick.
Not directed at you, as such, but these k
On May 7, 2013 9:15 AM, "Michael Tiernan" wrote:
> "Here's a situation,
> [describe computer version of Kobayashi Maru problem].
This sounds like fun. What are some of your favorite "unwinnable" problems?
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On 5/7/13 4:54 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote:
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> Then comes how do you troubleshoot the same problem with an https
> port?
openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443
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Wow, what a great idea...don't know why I never thought to try it in an
interview?
Considering its something I've had to do now and then in my job.
Incidents will come in saying, why does http monitor say our website is
down...port XXX is listeningand occasionally they'll add that they ca
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:16:41AM -0700, Corey Quinn wrote:
> On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Dean Wilson wrote:
> > "What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http"
> Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to
> telnet performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect
On 05/07/13 09:15, Michael Tiernan wrote:
"What is the UDP three way handshake?" He said he was wondering how
many people would catch the question's trick.
You send three UDP packets in three different directions, then shake the
hand of the person next to you.
--
Mr. Flibble
King of the Pota
Matt Simmons wrote:
>I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions.A Everyone always
>asks "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question
>is, "Why is it important to understand the three way handshake?"
To followup more constructively...
Now that I am the Direc
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alan Robertson wrote:
> When I
> interview people, I'm interested if they like to learn -- and if they're
> going to fit into the organization.
I too have gotten the ubiquitous "TCP handshake" question. Only once
have I gotten a curve ball from someone with it, th
On 05/07/2013 09:19 AM, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> I side along with Ski here--- soft skills and open-ended questions that
> really try to help nail down just what KIND of *person* this is-- is this
> someone that will get along well with the other co-workers? Is this someone
> that, at 10pm on
On 2013-05-07 09:16, Corey Quinn wrote:
"What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http"
Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to telnet
performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect sense in retrospect, this is
just one of those things I somehow missed.
On May 7, 2013, at 10:54 AM, David Parter wrote:
>> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions.A Everyone always
>> asks "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question
>> is, "Why is it important to understand the three way handshake?"
>> --Matt
>
> Answer: to get
Matt Simmons wrote:
>I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions.A Everyone always
>asks "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question
>is, "Why is it important to understand the three way handshake?"
>--Matt
Answer: to get past this interview?
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I side along with Ski here--- soft skills and open-ended questions that
really try to help nail down just what KIND of *person* this is-- is this
someone that will get along well with the other co-workers? Is this someone
that, at 10pm on a Saturday night, will remote-in to the office to ex
Perhaps this article by Andy Lester might be of service in this discussion…?
http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/280171/Bad-Tech-Job-Interview-Questions-and-How-To-Answer-Them
Personally my favorite thing to ask is, "What are you most proud of?" Some
people give you a technical answer
On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Josh Smift wrote:
> The real problem with interviewing is that most jobs are not very much like
> interviews...
You've hit the nail on the head here. I feel like we're selecting for people
who are great at interviewing, which doesn't map very well to "does this pers
On May 7, 2013, at 8:23 AM, "Brodie, Kent" wrote:
> Personal side note, telnet has always been a great debugging tool--- but
> what kind of sucks is that these days, telnet is usually NOT included by
> default in most linux distro installs. (it's available of course, but if
> you didn't ex
On May 7, 2013, at 10:42, Corey Quinn wrote:
Tom Limoncelli posted a fascinating blog post today, at
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2013/05/what-happens-when-you-type-tel.html
What I learned from that article is that I have no business interviewing
for a position Tom Limoncelli is hiring for.
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CQ> This is why I hate trivia questions as a gauge of skill.
Yeah. I'm also much more interested in communication skills and comfort
with things like revision control, configuration management, ticket
tracking, change control, and other principles like that, than about any
particular technical sk
On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Dean Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:52:51AM -0400, Matt Simmons wrote:
>> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks
>> "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favourite question is, "Why is
>> it important to understand
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:52:51AM -0400, Matt Simmons wrote:
> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks
> "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favourite question is, "Why is
> it important to understand the three way handshake?"
I've always used something l
Corey Quinn wrote:
> Tom Limoncelli posted a fascinating blog post today, at
> http://everythingsysadmin.com/2013/05/what-happens-when-you-type-tel.html
One of my favorite interview questions - been doing (variations of) this
for years!
My other favorite interview question -- if the resume incl
On 2013-05-07 08:41, Corey Quinn wrote:
Tom Limoncelli posted a fascinating blog post today, at
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2013/05/what-happens-when-you-type-tel.html
It reminds me in some ways of
https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe (same
question, a stupendously i
Beyond a few technical questions, most of my questions focus on soft
skills as I cannot teach those. I can teach and train a person in
technical skills if necessary.
cheers,
ski
On 05/07/2013 07:56 AM, Corey Quinn wrote:
On May 7, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Matt Simmons
wrote:
I'd rather ask (an
On May 7, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:
> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks "What
> is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question is, "Why is it
> important to understand the three way handshake?"
This is why I hate trivia questions a
I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks
"What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favorite question is, "Why is
it important to understand the three way handshake?"
--Matt
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Corey Quinn wrote:
> Tom Limoncelli posted a fascin
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