alt Hacker NewsMy first job interview in 1989 after college:
Them: "Do you know TCP/IP?". Me: "Yes". Them: "you're hired"
Job at the Westinghouse instrumenting nuclear power plants. Simpler times then.
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sigttou • today at 5:58 AM
"Usually we don't hire people from high school, but you had Common Lisp in your CV, so the engineers said to take you anyway." 2010, still simpler times.
selicos • yesterday at 10:52 PM
Do you know DNS? How does an HTTPs/SSL handshake work? Man this kid is good hire him. - 2015 era job interview
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vconnor • yesterday at 8:51 PM
Same for me in 2006 as a junior Linux sysadmin:
“What does ifconfig do? What does it mean to mount a disk? What editor do you use? You’re hired.”
None of that culture fit nonsense.
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Back in 1989 that was a rare skill. Many of the engineers who had experience were working on government projects. I mean TCP barely had congestion control at that point, it was very early days.