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Most all of the questions asked were not really relevent to day-to-day DBA/DBE operations. For example, one question asked was how the database model changed when a recovery was performed -- the model shouldn't change, it should be as the model was when the backup was done -- but he wouldn't accept that answer. Another asked how I would troubleshoot a performance problem. As I mentioned methodolgies and tools I would use, SQL Nexus, Profiler, DMVs, etc., the interviewer took all of them away until there was nothing practical left to use, then insisted that I tell him more. I think he may have been taken back a bit when I indicated that if he wasn't going to allow me to use any of the tools I know, that I would leave the client stuck with their own performance problem -- frankly, if the DBA/DBE and client can't work together, using tools that make sense and solve problems, why bother? I really do hope their work environment isn't that way...
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Database Engineer

Interviewed at Savvis

3★
Jan 24, 2013

Most all of the questions asked were not really relevent to day-to-day DBA/DBE operations. For example, one question asked was how the database model changed when a recovery was performed -- the model shouldn't change, it should be as the model was when the backup was done -- but he wouldn't accept that answer. Another asked how I would troubleshoot a performance problem. As I mentioned methodolgies and tools I would use, SQL Nexus, Profiler, DMVs, etc., the interviewer took all of them away until there was nothing practical left to use, then insisted that I tell him more. I think he may have been taken back a bit when I indicated that if he wasn't going to allow me to use any of the tools I know, that I would leave the client stuck with their own performance problem -- frankly, if the DBA/DBE and client can't work together, using tools that make sense and solve problems, why bother? I really do hope their work environment isn't that way...

I was be recruited to fix code that was not optimized and was given the scope of how big the project was during the interview process. I was not 100% sure I could do the job as it was a ton of changes. While I was not expecting the "here's what we want you to fix" right off the bat, I liked the approach that "hey we got some issues - but we want you to solve them."
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Database Administrator

Interviewed at Quomation Insurance Services

3.5★
Mar 31, 2014

I was be recruited to fix code that was not optimized and was given the scope of how big the project was during the interview process. I was not 100% sure I could do the job as it was a ton of changes. While I was not expecting the "here's what we want you to fix" right off the bat, I liked the approach that "hey we got some issues - but we want you to solve them."

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