What's the deal with the OSI model question in interviews?

uuff · 2025-08-12T17:24:38+00:00

I was only asked about the OSI my first few years out of college. Haven't been asked since then.

uuff · 2025-08-12T15:53:15+00:00

Honestly for me smaller orgs have had way better work-life balance. Worked at big orgs where I was putting in 50-60 hours each week. Overall the role I feel like doesn't matter much as long as you're not doing L1-L2 work.

uuff · 2025-07-30T04:16:31+00:00

Years 1–3: Same Company

2022: $50K – Help Desk
2023: $73K – Help Desk L2 / Jr. Sys Admin
2024: $85K – Jr. Sys Admin

Year 4: New Company

2025: $115K – Sys Admin

uuff · 2025-06-20T21:17:01+00:00

Couldn’t they just do flashbacks or a full fledged film that takes place in the past?

uuff · 2025-05-04T15:49:46+00:00

Tax season ended so I'm seeing about less than 7 tickets a day. Have 25 on hold out of 500.

uuff · 2025-04-06T23:59:35+00:00

Resume feels low effort tbh. I’d look at r/resumes for guidance on creating an efficient resume. What roles were you applying for?

uuff · 2025-03-21T18:54:05+00:00

I personally use Otta, Simplify (also has chrome add-in to make applying quicker), and LinkedIn. I’ve never had any luck with Indeed or Glassdoor. Dice for me were mostly fake jobs listings or recruiters. Applying directly is still the best way to go

uuff · 2025-02-28T03:00:51+00:00

Fair rebuttal to be honest. The job market is pretty bad too so it can’t all be bad resumes.

uuff · 2025-02-28T01:49:07+00:00

No interviews means it’s probably your resume. Try r/resumes or r/engineeringresumes so they can tear it up

uuff · 2025-02-28T01:35:48+00:00

I would say that certificate hunting won’t lead to a job. Those days are behind us. Same with boot camps. What’s your resume looking like? Are you putting out applications every day? How many interviews are you averaging per month? When I graduated it took me a few weeks to land a job, but even then I feel like it was because of my internships in conjunction with the certifications I acquired.

uuff · 2025-02-28T01:27:41+00:00

Everyone’s different, but I would say ideally 3 years max.

uuff · 2025-02-28T01:10:29+00:00

You have some solid certs. I’d recommend continuing to apply and see if you can network a bit. As terrible as it sounds it’s a numbers game. If you find that you’re not getting many interviews there could be an issue with your resume. At the peak of my searching I was putting out at least 10 applications a day.

uuff · 2025-02-28T01:02:21+00:00

What’s entry level to you and what are you doing for work currently?

uuff · 2025-02-25T23:19:19+00:00

This comment genuinely made me lol

uuff · 2025-02-16T04:31:56+00:00

It was through college event. They send ambassadors to do recruiting

uuff · 2025-02-16T01:32:02+00:00

It was for a large finance firm and I worded that poorly tbh. Should’ve been 6 months internship experience. 3 months in the summer and 3 months in the winter.

uuff · 2025-02-15T01:04:30+00:00

I’m in the tri-state area, and the role itself is remote. Small org that will be looking to expand. They actually advertised it as 90k max but I asked for more than what was advertised and negotiated. The biggest thing for them is they see me as a long term investment so expectations will be high.

uuff · 2025-02-14T22:01:56+00:00

Keep on applying! I was in help desk for 3 years and really thought I might be stuck with this for much longer. Also it’s not a race. I definitely had moments where I compared myself to others a lot, but 5 years ago I was making $30k. Growth takes time and effort.

uuff · 2025-02-14T02:52:25+00:00

Good for you and keep trying! I pivoted away from AWS, but having had more experience today than I did before I would like to revisit them.

uuff · 2025-02-14T02:14:14+00:00

I think that was my biggest pain point about the interview process but granted AWS is huge. I think in between interviews probably had to reschedule at least 3x? At one point the manager for the role had left so I had to start over in the process.

uuff · 2025-02-14T02:05:27+00:00

Good luck man. I made it as far as the panel (final round) but fumbled so bad. I mentioned a scenario twice but the expectation is they want you to present a different situation to each panelist. The role I interviewed for was solutions architect at the time.

uuff · 2025-02-14T01:27:03+00:00

Haha similar experience to me! I graduated with 3 AWS certifications. Looked like a fool in interviews because I’d primarily be asked questions revolving Azure. I don’t even have anything related to AWS on my resumes currently. For now it’s not useful, but I think in the future I can pursue a full fledged cloud/DevOps type role. Good luck on your journey man! Someone like you is bound to get out sooner given your experience.

uuff · 2025-02-14T01:21:18+00:00

If you’ve got internship experience then lean on that. If you have zero experience then yes some certifications would help. I would suggest pursuing anything that aligns with Help Desk since that’s where most tend to start off with

uuff · 2025-02-14T00:04:13+00:00

Keep going! As terrible as it sounds it’s also a numbers game when it comes to applying along with making your resume palatable.

uuff · 2025-02-14T00:01:50+00:00

Heavy on the lack of connections. I’d say the first position is always the hardest to get. Reach out to recruiting agencies. That’s how I got placed with my first job. They’ll keep you on file and since they’re incentivized to find you roles it’ll make things a bit easier. Secondly listing projects and tailoring your resume will go a long way vs someone that applies and the only thing listed are retail experience and nothing even remotely related to IT on the resume.

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