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General questions about database and Systems Engineering. They were especially interested in flexibility to perform other tasks than the main purpose for the job. They were looking for a good variety of skills.
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Senior Systems Engineer, Database

Interviewed at Paul Hastings

3.6★
Feb 3, 2015

General questions about database and Systems Engineering. They were especially interested in flexibility to perform other tasks than the main purpose for the job. They were looking for a good variety of skills.

The HR questions were standard questions about my overall experience. I talked with several members of the development team. There were not really any specific technical questions, but mostly overall descriptions of what the job would entail. The hiring manager did ask a few technical questions but they were fairly simple. The hiring process has since changed, at least in the group I was in. The process is much more strict and the interviews are much more technical.
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Senior Database Developer

Interviewed at Lumeris

2.9★
Jul 13, 2016

The HR questions were standard questions about my overall experience. I talked with several members of the development team. There were not really any specific technical questions, but mostly overall descriptions of what the job would entail. The hiring manager did ask a few technical questions but they were fairly simple. The hiring process has since changed, at least in the group I was in. The process is much more strict and the interviews are much more technical.

We have data that gets loaded once a week. With that in mind we have an application that clients enter search data in to and then SQL has to dynamically build a statement that has 25 different data points/relationships. It works fine, but takes upwards of 30 seconds to return the data to the client. You can not change the existing schema, but you can however add to it. Indexes are already present and optimized on all the different tables. What could you do to make this process much faster??
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SQL Database Administrator/Senior Developer

Interviewed at Morningstar

3.8★
Apr 4, 2011

We have data that gets loaded once a week. With that in mind we have an application that clients enter search data in to and then SQL has to dynamically build a statement that has 25 different data points/relationships. It works fine, but takes upwards of 30 seconds to return the data to the client. You can not change the existing schema, but you can however add to it. Indexes are already present and optimized on all the different tables. What could you do to make this process much faster??

After HR review, HR passed on some questions from tech team. 40% of these were not kind of things to be memorized. Afterwards a tech task is arrived. It was of general database normalization and index optimization tasks. There was also a partitioning task.
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Senior Database Engineer

Interviewed at N26

3.4★
Nov 15, 2022

After HR review, HR passed on some questions from tech team. 40% of these were not kind of things to be memorized. Afterwards a tech task is arrived. It was of general database normalization and index optimization tasks. There was also a partitioning task.

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