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Describe bgp How does bgp choose a path out. Bgp med Scripting Two switches connected together with different vlan but same subnet to end devices. Can they ping? Which switch would you login to to find a Mac address of a device? (This was obscure question. They are looking for you to say you'd write a script. Despite the fact the specifically say which switch.) Describe the difference between a list and a dictionary.
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Network Engineer

Interviewed at PlayStation

4.2★
Mar 31, 2022

Describe bgp How does bgp choose a path out. Bgp med Scripting Two switches connected together with different vlan but same subnet to end devices. Can they ping? Which switch would you login to to find a Mac address of a device? (This was obscure question. They are looking for you to say you'd write a script. Despite the fact the specifically say which switch.) Describe the difference between a list and a dictionary.

- Explain how OSPF decides how to forward traffic. - What is the difference between iBGP and eBGP and describe the issues with each - If you have mismatched native vlan on a trunk will the trunk work? Explain what happens in the protocol that determines its behavior when the native vlan is mismatched.
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Network Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 13, 2015

- Explain how OSPF decides how to forward traffic. - What is the difference between iBGP and eBGP and describe the issues with each - If you have mismatched native vlan on a trunk will the trunk work? Explain what happens in the protocol that determines its behavior when the native vlan is mismatched.

Technical questions, some very trivial (arp, traceroute, rtt, ..). On face to face interviews, it's sometimes related to social stuff (tell me when you didn't agree with your boss, with your colleagues, what did you do ...), and sometimes to technical questions (bgp, ospf, tcp, ...). Here it depends on how much you know about them, and the experience of your interviewer. I could have done many questions based on my experience that would have probably put them in trouble ... it is always like this. In any case, if you are not smart, you will probably not pass it.
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Network Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
May 24, 2015

Technical questions, some very trivial (arp, traceroute, rtt, ..). On face to face interviews, it's sometimes related to social stuff (tell me when you didn't agree with your boss, with your colleagues, what did you do ...), and sometimes to technical questions (bgp, ospf, tcp, ...). Here it depends on how much you know about them, and the experience of your interviewer. I could have done many questions based on my experience that would have probably put them in trouble ... it is always like this. In any case, if you are not smart, you will probably not pass it.

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