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This post is a recorded interview for a job posting that requires experienced PL/SQL
Programmers at a Software Firm, Mastek. The interview candidate is a three year
experienced PL/SQL, Cognos developer who works for IT division of financial services
giant, Merrill Lynch. He was recruited by the company after successfully clearing all
three rounds of interview: A Technical round, a Project Manager Interview round
followed by HR discussion.
HR Discussion
Introduces himself, tells about about current project, roles and responsibilities,
tells about previous work experiences and tells about his technical strengths.
Decomposing a table into many parts for better performance and manageability.
Types of Partition: 1. List, 2. Range, 3. Hash, 4. Composite. Read more about
Oracle partition
Trigger is a SQL block executed implicitly when one or more DML event occurs.
Read more about triggers.
Procedure may or may not return a value through parameters, where as a function
always return a value. There are three types of parameters allowed in procedure:
IN, OUT and IN OUT, where as there is only one type of parameter allowed in a
function: IN. Read more differences between functions and procedures
select department, max(salary) from employee where salary < (select max(sal)
from employee) group by department_no
7. Write a SQL query to delete all duplicate records in a table
delete from employee emp where rowid < (select max(rowid) from
employee e1 where emp.column=e1.column)
Again, tells his name, previous job experience and current project, roles and
responsibilities.
I have worked on Oracle PL/SQL and Cognos. Goes on telling about the
technologies he worked on in previous companies.
HR Discussion Round:
1. Why did you want to change your current job?
Firstly current job location is far from my home. It takes me two hours to go to
office and two hours to come home. Secondly, I don’t get enough exposure in
Cognos as I work only with List reports. I am looking for a better opportunities.
(Rants in his mind, “I want a better pay!!”)
How about Six hundred thousand Rupees per annum? (6,00,000 Rs or 12,351$
USD approx)
HR: I’m afraid I can not offer you more than five and half hundred thousand
Rupees (11,321$ USD approx) for your profile.
Candidate accepts the quotation and HR gives a joining date to the candidate.
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