Tag Archives: interviews

Share Your Mistakes

Posted on July 22, 2022 by way0utwest

I wrote the other day about a culture of allowing mistakes. We know mistakes are going to happen, so we ought to accept them. Even stupid ones. I make them at times, my wife does, my kid does, so I … Continue reading →

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Evaluting a DBA

Posted on June 18, 2021 by way0utwest

Interviewing is difficult for many organizations. Often they don’t have a consistent process, and very often the people that do initial screening don’t know much about what a DBA does. Many of the somewhat trivial questions I see on Internet … Continue reading →

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Interviews: Covering index

Posted on March 21, 2018 by way0utwest

Performance seems to be a part of every DBAs job. It should be a part of every developer’s job, but I understand the focus to build software is different and many developers aren’t sure how much a feature or option … Continue reading →

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Hiring Heterogeneously

Posted on July 22, 2013 by way0utwest

I wrote recently about tech interviews and hiring, and even on an interesting interviewing technique for senior people. However we need to hire more than just senior people. We need to hire junior people, and intermediate people. Those roles are important … Continue reading →

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