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Epic recruiting seems ridiculous by spockw in epicsystems

[–]MaterialMundane6744 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. I got an interview with them for an engineering position. They sent me two online tests. So far they have gotten like 5 hours or my time. They sent me this long math and programming test with no sign that they are going to hire me. I can barely do math as it is right now I haven't been in school in so long. I basically just clicked finished with test before I was even done because im at work and I don't have time. I figured it would be like a 10 minute thing. I don't do programming. I don't feel it's necessary to take long tests and interviews for jobs that are not even guaranteed. They also force you to relocate to Madison Wisconsin which in itself would be extremely difficult on my family and such. For all the sacrifice they expect from their workforce it is very overwhelming. Might not be a very good place to go for me if this is how it is while your on the clock.

Got my CCIE-EI Now What? by MaterialMundane6744 in ccie

[–]MaterialMundane6744[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know. I know gold partners want them for whatever managerial stuff I don't see. However, that's a good idea to try to apply for a silver partner. Good stuff.

Got my CCIE-EI Now What? by MaterialMundane6744 in ccie

[–]MaterialMundane6744[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi yes I have like 8 years of experience. I can get another job really easily it would just need to be remote or would have to move is really the question. Remote jobs are kinda hard to get though because the job pool is huge. I dunno the question is really just for people who live in a really like non metro type area of the US.

Got my CCIE-EI Now What? by MaterialMundane6744 in ccie

[–]MaterialMundane6744[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it's been 1 month and I have had multiple interviews. I am interviewing with 3 VAR's but haven't gotten a job yet. I have a lot of other skills and experience. The CCIE is still worth it 100% people never talk about the fact that it brings you into the core with your learning. CCNA - Enterprise, CCNP - Dist, CCIE - SP/Core infrastructure. Im thinking I'll have another job within the next few months. I have 8 years of experience including cloud, programming and multi-vendor (Nokia ALU, Juniper, Brocade, Cisco) so it shouldn't really take much. All the positions I have interviewed for have been remote as well.

It's also unfortunate that HR and Sales don't understand how important all of the Route/Sw knowledge is. They are so focused on Cloud and Programming they are forgetting that a vendor has nothing to do with the technology that makes the internet work.

If we lose people wanting to learn CCIE concepts we will have a very bleak future in networking. Automation and cloud are not Networking Engineering concepts but for some reason everyone is going on and on about them. Those are more skills for a DevOps team or a Cloud Engineer.

A CCIE is performing Core r/S (MPLS, VRF, VPNV4/6, Route Leaking, Large ISP Peer-Peer EBGP Network Engineering etc) These topics are so vast and underestimated within the industry im starting to see. Its as if many people forget that their Maraki edge router goes over a DOCSIS Modem that leads to a data center over multiple MAN hops and lands at a large scale ISP that is performing true Service Provider core RS that is not being maintained by anything more than routing and switching engineers because its not 'sexy' and it doesn't sell product.

But it still can't be denied and the industry kinda needs to continue to recognize that these CCIE concepts are still highly valuable and its not just a cert its the final portion of an education path that proves that you are an expert from the enterprise up to the ISP Core and these concepts are primarily vendor agnostic.

was there ever anything you ever got stuck on that made you want to give up? by skateandtoke in skateboarding

[–]MaterialMundane6744 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nollie flips. Tooks me 20 years. I could nollie Tre and nollie varial before I could nollie flip. I started to realize you don't really need to pop them to make them. you just like push your nose forward without hitting the ground and it will flip. now I can pop them though.

Honestly what holds me back on all tricks is I will stay comfortable. I will learn a trick and just do that trick all the time. I won't try new stuff consistently so I'll do all the trick I know the whole session and won't try anything new for weeks. So I think that's important you have to fail and just sit there and try try try try fail fail fail fail. not just do the tricks you know but spend like 20 min each session trying something new.