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No work life balance, 60+ hours is the expectation for everyone
I am interviewing for Sr. Oracle DBA position (ERP). Does anyone has insight on the interview pattern , type of questions? Are these interviews similar to the SDE ones that involve coding ? Also whats the TC range for this position ?
Can anyone comment on DBA/DBE Salaries? I have not seen any thread on roles other than SDEs.
Hi Everyone, My interview process is going on with Amazon for cloud support engineer, Dallas location. While reading blind threads and I am seeing a mixed reviews. Can someone share your thoughts for, 1) Is it a good move to Amazon CSE role? 2) How much salary we can expect for this role ? What...Read more
Been working as DBA for about 5 years. There is not much future for DBA role at Amazon. Looking for some other options, data Engineer , program manager. DBA's out there what are your plans.
Hi , How much Amazon pay for “AWS Oracle dba “?
Hi, I have applied for L5-oracle DBA role @Amazon and they offered base pay around 110k-140k and total comp around 150-160k. I am currently working as contractor through one of the consultancy and getting around 180k. i want to know the salary range for L5 Oracle DBA @ amazon. Can you guys please h...Read more
Hi , I am currently DBA at amazon and I got offer as solution architect at msft. I can also move internally as aws solution architect but I am not getting any decent hike How is digital cloud solution architect role at msft? I am in the right path moving from dba to pre sales role? Any inputs ar...Read more
Hello , I have 14 years experience as dba . I got better offer at oci as sr oracle dba - oci. Just had verbal offer from recruiter . I’m not sure if it’s ic2/3/4 . I’m planning to ask recruiter tomorrow . Is it good offer ? Base - 162k Bonus - $20k ($10k each for first 2 year ) Stock - 1500 Total ...Read more
Hello Blind Team, Can you please post onsite AWS Solutions Architect DBA interview questions and the experience of panel interview rounds for DBA role/SA . Databases primarily dealing with Oracle, MSSQL, Dynamo and Postgress and LPs. And will there be an presentation round? Any info will be much ap...Read more
At Meta, taking interviews for external candidates are considered as compulsory for Managers (for the people axis contribution). Managers are expected to take coding interviews at par with Sr. SDE level. Based on my experience at Amazon as Bar Raiser, 50% of SDM at Amazon are incompetent for codin...Read more
Got an offer as program manager in apple (contract, hybrid) in a DBAs team (cloud enablement). Looked like they have immense work. Had intimidating experiences in Amazon (full time) for 1 year. How is life for contractors in Apple? (Going to work place for the first time after covid - not happy ab...Read more
Experience : Data Analyst (Financial company) DBA/Data Engineer (Healthcare company) Database Consultant (Microsoft), laid off. YoE: 8+ Education: Masters in CS Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau LeetCode: 600+ Recent interviews: Capital One, Onsite at Amazon, Google, for SDE roles (career-shift). No of...Read more
I have an upcoming on-site for a database engineer position for GCP. Currently a database engineer in AWS. Note this is not a traditional DBA position. Think of the kind of engineer with a DBA background but the focus is on database automation and internals for a managed database service like Amazo...Read more
I have an offer from Fidelity NJ and currently in loop rounds for Amazon for a Senior DBA/SDE role. I know for sure Amazon will pay higher but I don't have an offer yet and it will take time while Fidelity offer will expire soon. I'm worried about Work/Life balance for which Ive heard good things a...Read more
Hi Everyone, I have 17 years of experience on SQL server as a DBA/Developer. I worked on SSIS and SSRS. My contract with current company will end this month. Looking for referrals for a Full-time or contract position. I am on H1B visa. Thanks! YOE: 17 TC: 176K #meta #google #apple #walmart #gith...Read more
Hi I don’t have any experience with data/BI. Im a DBA and i do have experience with sql though. I have an upcoming BIE interview in few days. Please share your experience if any one interviewed for BIE role recently. Any help with interview or any resources that would help me to crack the interview...Read more
I’ve been mostly an Oracle dba with a bit of postgresql through out my career. But with variety of databases (rdbms and nosql) other than oracle being used by most of the companies hosted in aws cloud, I’d like to focus on preparing for dbs-c01 certification i.e. amzn database specialty cert. Can s...Read more
Hi! Senior Engineer here. 20 YEO, but 80% spent as SRE for databases - and it's been years since CS major. I finally decided to step up the game, as I get sooo many recruiters poaching me. Unfortunately I'm really rusty in algo/DS. System design should be easier for me. First up is #Amazon SDE2. ...Read more
I am working as a senior DBA working for a company on Amazon AWS dbs like Mysql RDS Aurora, dynamo db and also working on mongo db atlas. In current company there are also few on prem dbs I am managing. Now, I got a very attractive opportunity in terms of money to work on sql server running on prem ...Read more
Hi Folks, As you know Amazon is agressivly hiring, I am here to give referrals. Please note, This won't be just referral, I will personally reach out to the hiring managers and share your resume. Condition: You are from any historically marginalized community: 1. LGBTQ+ candidate. 2. Person with ...Read more