Re: Are these too harsh ?

Hey, I like Connor's questions. Because that way people won't judge me by just the number of years I've been doing DBA instead of number of hours. I know most of those questions will hurt a lot of senior DBAs, especially those that have been permanent employees at one company for a long time and boast of their experience that "I started to use Oracle from version so and so". However, not too many of those know a lot about Oracle 8i, much less 9i. Languages such as Perl, knowledge of UNIX such as NFS and NIS (actually these two things are new any more, bad example) are their weak points. But as a DBA with a high salary, you can't convince the boss saying you don't know these. Maybe he doesn't care. But if he meets another DBA that also knows UNIX system admin, he'll start to think less of you. Just the fact of life.

Yong Huang

"Daniel A. Morgan" <Daniel.Morgan_at_attws.com> wrote in message news:<3B379C2B.66199346_at_attws.com>...
> I think most of your questions are irrelevant depending on what you expect the
> person to do. They look to me like a blend of development, DBA, sys admin, and
> irrelevant designed to make sure no one gets the job.
>
> The first question I'd ask is what are the tasks you want the person to do. Then
> I'd ask what each of these questions has to do with that task list. Most
> production DBAs wouldn't meet an autonomous transaction in their normal daily
> activities and most Development DBAs wouldn't know a latch if it wasn't attached
> to a gate in their front yard. (Not all guys so don't hit me too hard ... you
> know what I'm getting at.)
>
> Throw these questions away and write questions that will specifically test the
> candidate's ability to perform the tasks that will be assigned.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 22:59:20 CDT