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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: dba interview questions
Indeed. We all have our "thing" that we like to focus on. When I hire
someone, I'm more interested in the "program" running in someone's head
than I am in the "data segment" that's stored in there.
The far-and-away best interviewing material I've ever seen is the "Effective Interviewing!" stuff written by Jim Kennedy and Anna Everest, which you can read about at http://www.interviewedge.com/.
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
KENNETH JANUSZ
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:09 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I have had a couple of interviews for Oracle DBA jobs where they pull
out a
list of technical questions about the most minor items you can think of.
Being able to answer them indicates how good a person's grey brain cells
are
at memorizing trivia. They do not measure a persons ability to problem
solve which is a skill that I think a company would be interested in
when
hiring a DBA!
My $0.02 worth,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
> Pre-packaged questions are always a bad idea. When a company needs a
> DBA, it should know what do they need him for. Do they need them to
> monitor and troubleshoot production database and ensure the
> availability of the database, or help developers, or lead the database
> related projects or to help clients and install software or mop the
> floors and grind coffee? The abbreviation "DBA" can be applied to the
> great variety of business roles, some of which are mutually exclusive.
> Cary Millsap is using terms "performance analyst" and "performance
> related projects". Traditionally, companies do not have "performance
> analysts", they have DBA's performing this function. The abbreviation
> "DBA" came to mean almos anything short of "performing brain surgery".
> To make a long story short, the company looking for a DBA should know
> what specific job functions are they interested in, what specific
> skills are needed to perform the required job functions and adjust the
> the interviewing process. For instance, if you need a DBA to go and
> help your clients, then driver's license would be a requirement.
Sounds
> trivial, but I know a lot of folks from NYC that don't drive and don't
> have driver's license. Generally speaking, driver's license is not a
> requirement for the DBA position, but sometimes, it can be.
>
> On 10/24/2003 09:49:26 AM, Kirtikumar Deshpande wrote:
> > The problem with such lists is that the prospects also have those...
> > A few years ago Mike Ault published one. We used it to screen
> > candidates via phone interviews.
> > Two out of four I talked to gave me perfect answers: word to word
> > from
> > Mike's list.
> >
> > Use Conner's approach: Give the candidate a white/black board, and
> > ask
> > him/her to draw the SGA
> > with all it interal structures, all background processes, and
explain
> > how all this works
> > together.....
> >
> > - Kirti
> >
> >
> > --- system manager <sysmgr_at_netlimit.com> wrote:
> > > Dear List, Can anyone send me a list of dba interview
questions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
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-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: KENNETH JANUSZ INET: kjanusz_at_att.net Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Cary Millsap INET: cary.millsap_at_hotsos.com Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).Received on Fri Oct 24 2003 - 15:04:25 CDT
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