Re: How do you conduct technical interviews ?

I agree on the OCP thing. I dont really want to start the whole OCP debate again, but a good rule of thumb (to me at least) would be OCP + 5 years experience (minimum) as a DBA=good candidate, OCP with less than 5 years experience, still a rookie DBA, but good at memorizing stuff.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 8:32 AM, jason arneil <jason.arneil_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>wrote:
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>> You have to draw a line somewhere on the memorization piece. I might ask
>> the interviewee to name a few background processes in the Oracle database on
>> *nix, but I wouldnt necessarily expect him to go into detail about what each
>> process does.
>>
>> A general answer would be sufficient, for example pmon monitors processes
>> running in the database. If the candidate needed highly detailed
>> information, I would expect (and want) him to look it up. In my opinion,
>> the ability to find an answer to something that he doesn't know the answer
>> to, or to check on what he thinks is the answer before he does something, is
>> vital.
>>
>>
> Totally agree that it is better finding someone who displays the correct
> thought processes rather than knowing a particular fact/bit of trivia.
>
> In fact in some ways this argument can be deployed against the whole OCP
> circus as well. Some of the worst candidates I have seen have come clutching
> an OCP.
>
> Though, of course there are many good people with them too, but I suspect
> these people would shine out without it as well.
>
> cheers,
>
> jason.
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