From: Ricardo Ferreira (ricardo.ferreira@quadcomm.com.br)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 19:48:27 GMT-3
Hi,
Having more than 15 yrs of experience into this industry and hired more than
100 engineers over my career and being absolutely sure this fresh CCIE has
access to this GS my suggestion to him is to do what I have been doing very
successfully and hiring highly skilled engineers even when they do not have
any certification in their bag.
Build a lab with a couple routers, switches, servers, etc... ( For a big
company this is a piece of cake ); design a scenario that meet the company
requirements for that job and do not waste time with long interviews.
Real engineers love to to put their hands on the equipment and play with
them to meet the technical requirements. This is a pratical, quick and very
fair way of finding out the candidade is ready for that position.
Hope you - fresh CCIE - can understand a CCIE is no more than a skilled
professional that proved to everyone he is ready to be challenged and
nothing else. _ BTW Take advantage of the test made by your candidates and
learn more about the technology... This is what will make you a better
professional. Sharing your knowledge and being smart
Ricardo Ferreira
CCNP, CCDP, CCNA, CCDA, MCSE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan K" <jan_k@verizon.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Bad Interview Experience
> One interviewer I knew intentionally didn't read anything past the skills
> portion on the resume lest he become too impressed by the subject's
> experience (or underwhelmed).
>
> During the interview he would basically grill you on whatever you dared to
> put down in your skills section, looking for weak spots and fibs. If you
> passed, the interview process proceeded. If you failed, goodbye. It was
just
> a very efficient and meritocratic way of narrowing down the candidates.
>
> This person, btw, had 10+ years of experience, starting out as a cable
> installer, and was a vp at the time working for a major bank/brokerage
> (csfb). He didn't have a single certification and found people who had the
> audacity to call themselves experts (the e in ccie) totally unimpressive
and
> somewhat pretentious after one of them couldn't tell him what the default
> enable password for Catalyst 6500's was.
>
> - Jan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Larson" <clarson52@comcast.net>
>
>
> > My VistaPrint Electronic Business CardI just thought I would throw out
an
> > experience I had yesterday. It was very unnerving and I wonder if others
> have
> > had similiar experiences. I have been in networking for better then 12
> years
> > but only got CCIE certified in the last year. I have had lots of
> interviews
> > throughout my carreer, most have had a technical aspect but I never felt
> > uncomfortable in any of them until yesterday.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
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