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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:11:17 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: Interview Yury Zayrinov
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Summary: mixed.

Quite honestly Max's thoughts make me a bit nervous.  I asked some
questions about HA as well as database, and the answers were fudgier
than I would have liked, which would seem to echo some of Max's
comments.  His HA knowledge seemed hit and miss, but that's not
terribly unusual when you've worked on a project that purports to be
more HA than it truly is. <COeveronUGH>

His communication and interaction skills seemed pretty good.

I rate his intelligence and drive pretty high.  Like Chris said, he
puts a lot of personal value on being "custodian" of some chunk, which
is usually a good sign.

Slow isn't bad, as long as it's not catestrophically slow.  The
tortoise and the hare, after all.

I won't rate him a home run for the job.  As to hire or no, I leave
that to those that work more on stuff that he would be working on.

Now where be my rum,

a


On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:29:04 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> I agree with hire, though we had some disagreement during the
> interview on what a transaction is and whether you can have multiple
> read and write database operations in a same transaction. We might
> have to ask him to read a book on that. He needs to get some
> clustering knowledge as well, but did get what the voting process
> means after some explanation. He seems to be familiar with
> hierarchical state machine concepts and the idea of collaborating
> processes running state machines, so he should be able to understand
> what he have now and how to get it to where we want. He seems to be
> smart enough, though a little bit slow even for me, which may come
> from the fact that he was not very familiar with terminology we
> consider common here. 
> 
> _____________________________________________
> From: Jonathan Goldick 
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 10:01 AM
> To: Susan Harvell
> Cc: Andy Sharp; Maxim Kozlovsky; Chris Vandever
> Subject: Interview Yury Zayrinov
> 
> Here's my feedback.
> 
> I think he can do the job of MySQL and MXA so would hire him.
> 
> I went over the system in detail, went over SystemX from a MXA/MySQL
> point of view.
> 
> I asked him how to split file system create into a reliable,
> transactional workflow given that LUN label is not transactional.  He
> got the right answer with little prompting.
> 
> The only negative was that he comes off as slow, but this may be an
> English issue.  He spent a lot of time trying to understand what we
> do; I would have expected that level of understanding to come from a
> reading of the web site.
> 
> I really need people to focus on whether he is the best, sharpest
> person for this job.  Try to get a read on his intelligence and drive.
> 
