You would if you knew how hard the tests were. ( not counting Microsoft of course) BF -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Weeks Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:17 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: 24x7 Support Strategies --------------- jabley@ca.afilias.info wrote:----------------- From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote:
Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff on a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota with a garanteed response time? How about CCNP?
Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence of vendor certifications on a resume when judging the capabilities of an engineer? There's no correlation between certification and capability, in my experience. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The issue I've found is many times I am being hired by folks that don't know IP networking very well and don't know any other way to evaluate a person's ability WRT IP networking than requiring certs of one type or another. Or trust the confidence I express when answering the questions they do ask. One day, hopefully, someone will ask me in an interview good technical questions that I can answer in a proper manner and then they'll let me telecommute for most of the year... ;-) scott