[ale] Linux Distributions

[Jim Popovitch]

Are you suggesting that people are using this list to fatten/support
holes in their resumes?  Now I think I now understand a few others'
posts. :-)

-Jim P.

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:11 -0400, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> The only thing I can add to this is an anecdote...this has happened  
> to me twice in Interviews lately...
> 
> I have come into an interview, and after brief pleasantries the  
> interviewer (or a sit-in) has said "I researched you on Google and  
> have some questions about some of your technical positions"  and they  
> proceeded to ask me about why I did a certain technical thing a  
> certain way.  At another job.   5 years ago.
> 
> Now, imagine if you find yourself in an interview position in the  
> future, and the interviewer brings this technical issue up to you in  
> the interview, and asks "Why do you hold this technical position?   
> It's bad practice, you know?"
> 
> Will you
> 
> A) argue with him
> B) stomp out thinking he's trying to start a flamewar
> C) realize at that time that it's not craziness we're spouting
> 
> 
> Interviewers  and potential employers read our "work" here on ALE and  
> whatever other lists we participate in, and your words can be used  
> against you in the  future in that next search for a  UNIX Admin job.
> 
> Given that the majority of UNIXdom holds the "don't run  as root"  
> view, howwill yo-u answer those questions  when they come?
> 
> Don't you think it's better we hash it all out here instead of being  
> blindsided in an interview with it?
> 
> 
> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
> McKesson, Inc.
> 404.293.8762