In the last article on technical interviewing, I told the story of how I got my first networking job. The interview was chaotic and unorganized, and resulted in me getting the job and being quite successful. In this post, I’d like to start with a very basic question: Why is it that we interview job […]
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Moscone Microwave
My first full-time networking job was at the San Francisco Chronicle. Now there isn’t much to the Chronicle anymore, but in the early 2000’s the newspaper was still going strong. It was the beginning of the decline, but most people still took their local newspaper as their primary source of news. Being a network engineer […]
TAC Tales #15: Loopy
I’ve mentioned in previous TAC Tales that I started on a TAC team dedicated to enterprise, which made sense given my background. Shortly after I came to Cisco the enterprise team was broken up and its staff distributed among the routing protocols team and LAN switch team. The RP team at that time consisted of […]
Two Years of Ten Years a CCIE
Two years ago I published my Ten Years a CCIE series. Actually, I had written the series a couple years before I published it, but as I say in my introduction to the series, I felt it was a bit self-indulgent an uninteresting, so I scrapped it for a while. The original pieces were dictated, […]
How to pass the CCIE lab exam in one attempt
In this post in the Ten Years a CCIE series, I go over my preparations for the CCIE Routing and Switching exam, and what I did to pass in one attempt. The first months… I passed my CCIE Routing and Switching Lab in one attempt, so I think my approach can be considered effective. At least, […]