Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com> writes:
For screening questions (for 1st level filtering), IMO, the questions has to be straight to the point, for example:
1) What is the LSA number for an external route in OSPF?
This can have two answer: 5 or 7. So, I will accept if the candidate answer 5, 7 or 5 and 7. Later on (the next level of the interview), a techinical interviewer will chech if the candidate understand the differences of LSA 5 and 7.
Frankly, this feels a bit like asking what the 9th byte in an IP header is used for (it's TTL, but who's, uh, counting?) -- "That's why God gave us packet analyzers" should be counted as an acceptable answer. If not, you'll find yourself skipping over plenty of extremely well qualified candidates in favor of those who have crammed recently for some sort of exam in hopes of compensating for their short CV. -r