[TriLUG] Red Hat System Admin class
Matthew Lavigne
lavigne at thosebastards.net
Fri Nov 9 14:07:02 EST 2007
On 11/8/07, Greg Cox <glcox at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Nick Goldwater wrote:
>
> <snip>
Y'know, I was thinking about that as an interview question. If
> posed at $WORK, you'd approve a DBA and a Weblogic admin who happen to
> spend inordinate amounts of time tuning Beryl, while eliminating 6-7
> of 8 sysadmins (most of whom run OSX on the desktop, or just took
> default settings of Ubuntu).
Not in my shop, everyone had to prove their worth and the fact that they had
to be team players. The biggest problem that I had was once I hired someone
and got them trained, any of serveral other depts would try to "pick" them
up as they would then have a much more rounded skill set, but I was lucky in
about 5 yrs I had about 4 people that moved on out of the team to better
positions/teams within IBM and usually found a good replacement.
> I dunno, I'm not a fan of the RHCE exam as a measure of usefulness in
> the office. It's likely going to come down to "what do you need
> on this job?"
True that is what a probation period is for, plus that is why each of the
team members got to interact with the candidate, so that I could use their
gut opinion on them. If 5 of 6 team members are not impressed then the boss
OUGHT to listen cause there is some sort of undercurrent.
and maybe there's some shop that needs exactly what an
> RHCE learns. I GUESS being certified to fix CUPS on a RHEL box while
> rassafrassa SELINUX=enforcing is useful.. somewhere..
SELINUX==EVIL
In hiring, I like to see more skillz in hetrogenous environments (to
> say nothing of the candidate passing the "would I ever go have a beer
> with them?" test).
True
Could be that I'm jaded from interviewing an RHCE
> who vehemently 'corrected' me when I asked something about vfstab on
> a Solaris box.
That candidate like server others would have been asked to leave at that
point, I didn't (and still don't) tolerate that from a potential team
member... But I also made it a point to tell candidates at the beginning of
the interview that I was an @ssh0le and that shop ran the way that I wanted
it to run that that was not debatable.
Matthew.
And those of you that know me, know who true that last statement is.
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