The technical interview practice gap

Re:The technical interview practice gap by maerF0x0 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:13PM (#26406621)

Used to play this game where we'd ask the interviewer to "go deeper" on how something worked to see where there limits of their technical understanding was. Depending on the level expected (eg junior vs senior) you could expect certain depth.

Eg: "Tell me what happens when you type an address into your browser bar"

Someone junior might say "You type in the address, it fetches HTML from their server, and your browser shows it" -- "go deeper" -- "Their server uses HTTP or something.." etc..

Someone senior might get to something like "Well when you press the first 'w' key it triggers a hardware interrupt ..." or more likely something about TCP/IP and the rest of the network stack...

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Re:The technical interview practice gap by jerf on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:59PM (#26414061)

I don't expect to ever have either the chance or the true desire to do this, but I've often wondered if I could, with literally zero additional preparation, spend a full 8 hour day presenting an answer to that question extemporaneously. If I couldn't, I'm not off by much at this point.

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Re:The technical interview practice gap by grillvogel on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:39PM (#26430928)

yea this must be a pretty standard networking question, when i am probing network skills i ask "what happens when you type ping google.com"

you get a very interesting range of answers

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