Stressful DBA job, but you learn a lot
Stressful DBA job, but you learn a lot
The technology and systems are challenging.
Many database environments have RAC and SharePoint. This is a blessing and a burden.
Much overnight work, frequent crises, and a demanding work environment. Shareplex probably increases the problems and alerts by threefold. The applications I supported are very demanding and require off-hours for most of the changes, which were frequent. I'm talking about 11 PM or 2 AM start times, and it often was 6-8 hours of work.
They require a lot of Oracle patching and 8 Enterprise releases per year for many applications, and that's something that runs on weekends for about 12-18 hours. Most people have had enough after 1-2 years.
Hire more DBAs to spread out the off-hours work and support.
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Senior Database Administrator
Technical phone interview, then technical face-to-face.
Senior Software Engineer POS
The emphasis was on testing knowledge, with a little about how you would be to work as an afterthought. It took about an hour. There were two interviewers, with a manager sitting in. The manager described the company and the job. The technical peopl
Software Engineer
I was the interviewer. I am interested in seeing if they know what is on their resume. To do this, I ask about 30-45 minutes of technical questions about C, Unix, and SQL (Oracle) with two or three programming exercises.
Senior Database Administrator
Warren, New Jersey, United StatesFebruary 22, 2014Technical phone interview, then technical face-to-face.
Senior Software Engineer POS
Warren, New Jersey, United StatesJanuary 1, 2018The emphasis was on testing knowledge, with a little about how you would be to work as an afterthought. It took about an hour. There were two interviewers, with a manager sitting in. The manager described the company and the job. The technical peopl
Software Engineer
Warren, New Jersey, United StatesOctober 1, 2017I was the interviewer. I am interested in seeing if they know what is on their resume. To do this, I ask about 30-45 minutes of technical questions about C, Unix, and SQL (Oracle) with two or three programming exercises.
