Why experienced DBA try to embraces to younger DBAs in interviews?

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Why experienced DBA try to embraces to younger DBAs in interviews?

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January 15, 2010 at 7:38 am

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Why experienced DBA try to embarrassing to younger DBAs in interviews? Why thy thing that they are only one who evaluate and rate to younger DBA?
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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 1

based on the very detialed question you just gave us :

Because! :w00t:

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Well, who else is going to be able to properly asses a junior DBA's skills other than another DBA?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

Have to agree, who better to evaluate the skills/knowledge of DBA but an experienced DBA? Would you rather a developer (read that as programmer) do the evaluation, or maybe a manager that hasn't touched a database in years?

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 4

I'm not sure what you mean by "embraces". Did you mean "embarass"? "Embrace" means to hug or contain. "Embarass" means to make some look bad.

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Reo Hall of Fame Points: 3774 More actions · Answer 5

Sorry! for incorrect spell

My concern is - Embarrassing - "Means to make some look bad"

Ram
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 6

Why and how do you feel that an experienced DBA tried to embarrass you during an interview?

Specific examples would be benifical.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

The whole point of an interview is to see what you know. Part of that means asking questions that you may not be able to answer. If you don't know, you don't know. No one knows everything.

One of the reasons that such questions have to be asked is to weed out the people who have exaggerated their skills and the ones that will try to make up answers to stuff they don't know.

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The_SQL_DBA SSChampion Points: 10494 More actions · Answer 8

I guess the embarrassment depends on the difficulty of question?

You can't get away by answering basic questions wrong. Also, depends on the role that you are applying for. I would be pissed as an interviewer if an accidental dba is applying for the role of a 24x7 production support dba for mission critical databases.

But, I may not embarrass the candidate though..n he could still say I embarrassed him..how about that??

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Bru Medishetty SSC-Insane Points: 23606 More actions · Answer 9

Agree with others here..

By the way, was the position an entry level and the Senior DBA grilled as if it's a senior level DBA?

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

A thought I had, what if the DBA interviewer was actually trying to see one or more of the following:

1) How you handle pressure/adversity

2) How much training will this candidate need before I leave (planning for succession)

3) What do you really know

4) If you don't know, how would you find the answer

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January 15, 2010 at 10:18 am

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May I know who is The_SQL_DBA?

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baghel_ramdas (1/15/2010)
May I know who is The_SQL_DBA?

That would be me I guess ;-)...

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baghel_ramdas (1/15/2010)
May I know who is The_SQL_DBA?

Why ??

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Thanks for reply of member The_SQL_DBA

I'm realy sorry for that. Know I understand who can evaluate a DBA?

My answer is - only experienced DBA can.

I apologize for all members who replied and read this question.

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