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      Database Administrator Interview

      15 Jan 2018
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at HSBC (London, England) in Jan 2018

      Interview

      My profile was shortlisted for the position of Mainframe DB2 DBA. I had an experience of 2.5 years. I had faced one F2F technical interview round and then HR round. The process was very smooth as I was called for the F2F interview in Pune, Business Bay location. The interview lasted for around 45 minutes. The interviewer covered almost all the topics and fortunately I was selected for the position.

      Interview questions [8]

      Question 1

      What are your roles and responsibilities in your current organization?
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      Question 2

      What is IRLM?
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      What are the isolation levels and describe them?
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      Question 4

      What is static and dynamic SQL with examples?
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      Question 5

      What is a bind pocess and why it is needed in DB2 ?
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      Question 6

      What are the different types of reorgs and explain the phases?
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      Question 7

      What are offline and online utilities?
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      Question 8

      How to recover a dropped Tablespace?
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      24 Dec 2021
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      Declined offer
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      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at HSBC

      Interview

      Started with an online application of CV and cover letter, then online tests and a case study. Then telephone interview before an assessment centre. Was a very quick process which was nice.

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