Interview Question for Systems Administrator at Ambac:

The difficulty is not in any one question, but the range of subjects: Do you know what derivatives are? SWAPS, bonds, market data? How well do you know sqlserver, SYbase? How do you do compress database dump? Can you script in Korn shell? How do you set variables? call a function? What's the difference between L5-20P and L6-20P? R? How do you what files are open? Have you managed multiple projects at the same time? What do you know about networking? Domains? Solaris.