From: Jan K (jan_k@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 18:20:46 GMT-3
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.
>
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