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Well, I know that there are "interview questions", but they are trying to show us the kind of knowledge that is needed to join a Company as Cloudfare so I am pretty sure that some of those are going to be questions in some point of their interview process.

I just wanted to know that in case that the questions are formulated that way, what's the ratio of people that can successfully answer those.



The article says:

"For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks? I'm joking of course, but in the spirit of the old TCP/IP pub game I want to share some of the amusing TCP/IP quirks I've bumped into over the last few months while working on CloudFlare's automatic attack mitigation systems."

That is, these are not real interview questions. They are trivia questions.

I doubt most engineers even at Cloudflare can answer these without research.


mu out of zero people asked successfully answered.




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