Technical Interview - I feel dumb now.... :)

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Technical Interview - I feel dumb now.... :)

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 1

amy26 (4/3/2012)
So, update.... I guess I overracted and I'm not as dumb as I think I did... the recruiter just called me and said that they LOVED me. And they would love to fly me down for an in person interview. The sad news, is she said the CIO came down and told them they had hired too many people this year and were putting a freeze on it. So, now the guy I interviewed with has to make a plee to the CIO and justify that my position is critical and they really need to allow the position I applied for to be filled. 🙁
So, great news ....and bad news. 🙁 I really hope they pull through because its a great opportunity and would get me the heck out of DC. So, keep your fingers crossed for me. 🙂

Best of luck!

And if you nailed that interview that well, the odds of finding something better than your current situation, with them or someone else, are pretty much in your favor.

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Geoff A SSChampion Points: 11511 More actions · Answer 2

interviews. blah...

having been on both sides of the table i can also add 1 thing.

whenever you think you did bad, there will more than likely be 10 people behind you that are even worse.

i have had to conduct interviews with people that called themselves DBA's that did not even know the difference between an index and a table.

amy26 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8896 More actions · Answer 3

So, bad news is this job never got back to me. Good news is, I just got another offer yesterday. I think my dreams of getting out of the DC area will have to wait awhile but I got an offer from CSC as a senior developer/DBA on one of their government contracts. Does anyone have any experience working for CSC? I wasn't able to get them to budge on their offer. They were dead set with their 125k number and number of vacation days. But the team seems great and they said hours and stuff are pretty flexible.

I'm hoping since CSC is so big that after a year or two I can transfer out of state.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003911 More actions · Answer 4

125K isn't bad for the DC area.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

winston Smith SSCoach Points: 19498 More actions · Answer 5

Never ever ever be afraid of saying that you dont know something. There is nothing worse that a self proclaimed know it all who pretends to know everything, and tries to bluff thier way through something they dont know, giving incorrect information more often than not.

In an interview or when dealing with a client, I dont know shows you dont know everything. who could possibly know everything? In an interview situation, follow up on any questions you didnt know, ask questions, show them that you are genuinely interested and willing to learn anything that you dont know.

On a client site follow up "i dont know the answer" with "but I will investigate and get back to you by xx:xx time tomorrow". I have often been asked something i didnt know, and as long as i am willing to find out, and set a clients expectations they are always happy with the answer. just make sure you follow up!