Comment by wrasee

No, just basic judgement and prioritisation, which are valuable skills for an employee to have. The OP was effective at finding the right information they needed to solve the problem at hand: In about an hour, the OP knew enough about PPP to fix the bug and submit a patch.

Whereas it's been all morning and you're still reading the RFC, and it's the wrong RFC anway.

I know who i'd hire.