On Wed Jul 29 15, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:25:24 -0700 > Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > > > On Wed Jul 29 15, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:30:31 -0700 > > > Sesso wrote: > > > > > > > "Companies should focus a little less on buzzwords, and a lot more > > > > on someone's ability/desire to learn, ability to think critically, > > > > and ablility to solve problems.” > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a hard time finding candidates with all 3 of the above. I > > > > have met many that have a strong desire to learn but lack problem > > > > solving skills. Now for a shared hosting company, this is fine. > > > > Dedicated/Cloud infra. won’t work out. > > > > > > > > jason > > > > > > What are both of you meaning by "problem solving skills?" What, > > > exactly, would the work of someone with "problem solving skills" > > > look like? > > > > > > How does "problem solving skills" differ from "thinking critically?" > > > > > > I'm not asking out of idle curiosity, this is actually part of what > > > I do. > > > > > > > > > SteveT > > > > I agree they probably mostly overlap, but when I think of problem > > solving I think of skills specific to the position. > > > Most likely in the interviews the person > > will be asked "A customer's system has paniced and they've sent you a > > vmcore. What do you do?" > > To me, the preceding question is part problem solving skills, and part > subject matter expertise (which is info that can be learned quickly). > I'd say the vmcore part of the question is subject matter expertise. I'd > never heard of vmcore, so I looked it up, and it appears to be a kind > of core dump, interpretable by various utilities, primarily in the > Redhat and OpenSuSE worlds. If the applicant came from the Debian > world, s/he might not know about vmcore, but 10 minutes of Googling > shows this pretty complete explanation: > > https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH69923.html Nothing Redhat or SuSE specific about it: https://packages.debian.org/stable/crash https://packages.debian.org/stable/kdump-tools The Kexec/Kdump facility is in the upstream kernel. If interested, better info on the crash utility: https://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_whitepaper/ Jerry --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss