[TriLUG] Red Hat System Admin class

[Scott Lambdin]

You really are from NY.

On 11/9/07, Matthew Lavigne <lavigne at thosebastards.net> wrote:
>
> 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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