Using Junosphere for…. Interviews?

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In my last blog, I talked a little bit about the flexibility of Junosphere and how there are many different ways customers can—and do—use Junosphere. I was a little surprised that the very next day after my blog posted, I heard about a new use case that I hadn’t even thought of. I was visiting Juniper’s OpenLab Innovation Center in New Jersey and heard from a customer who was interested in using Junosphere in the interview process.

It turns out this company hires a lot of network engineers, and in addition to all the standard interview questions, they thought it would be a good idea to do a hands-on evaluation of a candidate’s skills. Junosphere obviously is a natural fit for something like this: it can be purchased and used on-demand, and it gives users access to real networks running the Junos operating system.

Give a candidate a broken topology or incorrect router configuration and ask them to fix it – it would be very much like the tasks they’d have to perform on-the-job.

I thought this was a great example of the flexibility of Junosphere: it’s so flexible that customers are finding uses for Junosphere that haven’t even occurred to us here on the Junosphere team.

PS - On a related topic, if you haven’t visited the OpenLab facility, I encourage you to check it out. The team there has done a great job and there are training events happening almost every week. I’ll be back in September running another Junosphere session – please check it out.