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Can you give me references from other DBAs and developers who aren’t at your company?
We want to know that they’ve got at least a couple of people they can call when the going gets rough and the servers catch fire. These other references could be mentors, or could be people they’ve mentored or just worked with along the way.
We expect to get terrified looks, and We answer those by saying, “We don’t want to raise any red flags by calling people at your current employer, and We are sure you know people who’ve left your company and moved on. We just want to talk to people who’ve worked with you on projects or on problems. We won’t ask for your level of technical competency, because these other guys can’t judge that. We just want to know you’ve interacted with them.”
We know, it’s creepy, but here’s the problem: there’s a lot of fakers out there with all the right answers, but no actual experience. At the senior level, for somebody with five or more years of experience, they have to have met other people who can at least verify they’re database administrators.
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