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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Junior engineer attending a senior engineering interview. Post 303029574 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 29th of January 2019 07:08:36 AM

01-29-2019

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I think you should ask, and get them to explain why certain things are true/useful/shouldn't be done or whatever to make them justify the senior tag - and pay. If they are no better than yourself, then you should apply for the job because you could show that you are capable.

Don't try to be mean and trip them up, but explore the concepts of what you do and see if there are some examples (with all the appropriate documentation) to work though on a tricky problem. IMHO, there's nothing wrong with a useful test. I'm sure no-one knows everything but you need to make the candidate know you mean business and are interested in getting a good engineer rather than just anyone. Remember that they have to agree that you are a company they want to work for too. You have to make them choose you for more reasons than just the pay.

Just my humble opinion.

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zdb

zdb(1M) 						  System Administration Commands						   zdb(1M)

NAME

       zdb - ZFS debugger

SYNOPSIS

       zdb pool

DESCRIPTION

       The  zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file system is always consistent on
       disk and is self-repairing, zdb should only be run under the direction by a support engineer.

       If no arguments are specified, zdb, performs basic consistency checks on  the  pool  and  associated  datasets,	and  report  any  problems
       detected.

       Any options supported by this command are internal to Sun and subject to change at any time.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0    The pool is consistent.

       1    An error was detected.

       2    Invalid command line options were specified.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWzfsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Unstable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       zfs(1M), zpool(1M), attributes(5)

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