I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at S&P Global (New York, NY) in Nov 2011
Interview
got interview through on campus job fair. The interview is 30min written test followed by a 30min of 1:1 interview. Mainly discuss the answers to the questions. Questions are about ER design, write a short java code and some complicated SQL queries given several schemas. The interviewer is helpful and very nice. Just got invitation to go to NYC for final round.
So the interview started and there were 3 people who interviewed me one had around like 12 yrs exp in Oracle and other two of them around 9+ yrs in Database. They didn't allow me at least one question to answer completely..ever time complete one sentence they start interrupting in between and asking all the loops which were a very high level questions. That was just the 1st round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
an you explain how you would design a highly available and fault-tolerant database system for a global enterprise?"
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at S&P Global (Hyderabad) in Oct 2014
Interview
It was a 4 rounds interview process. First one was aptitude and multiple choice questions on all the CS topics which were not tough. 3 rounds of interview was totally on databases and little bit of Operating Systems. 4th round of interview was HR.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at S&P Global (Chennai) in Aug 2013
Interview
1st round: technical + aptitude organised by MATRIX CUbe
2nd round: written test where a set of tables were given from programmer interview.com and querries were to be written down
3rd round: tech interview
4th round: tech and HR interview
5th round: Phone interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about normalisation techniques with detail analysis of the probelms occuring at each step
indexes and types of indices