I applied through a recruiter.

There was an initial contact with HR that was excellent and truly professional. I answered a few technical questions in English successfully. Then came the technical interview with two internal consultants, and honestly, in twenty years of career, I have never taken an interview so far removed from the established job description. There was not a single question about performance, indexing, statistics, histograms, or scalability. Everything focused on software designer issues. Of course, I got rejected. It was a great pity because the flow of the recruitment process was very professional, with flawless HR follow-up, but to be told that the skills are too "junior" when I have twenty years of production DBA expertise... Too bad, the position really looked very interesting on the job posting.

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