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From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: URGENT, need info for job interview monday
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References: <29fed09c@babyoil.ftp.com> <js.21.709599843@gaaj.uottawa.ca>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1992 12:57:14 GMT
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js@gaaj.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon) writes:
> I'm about to go for an interview, and at the last minute, my contact
>tells me that his boss want's a Unix Guru (almost) . . .
>[ admits lack of UNIX knowledge and asks some basic questions that
> confirm it ]
In a past life as a departmental manager, I always considered honesty
in stating knowledge base a critical feature in any employee. One
hopes you are going to be forthright in your Monday interview.
--
"Ace/MIPS [i.e. the ultrix/OSF version] was another of Ken Olsen's little
jokes, mostly on MIPS."
Dave Probert in in comp.sys.sun.misc article <probert.699728622@orcas>