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      Infrastructure Management and Systems Administration Interview

      Sep 5, 2010
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Antonio, TX
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Accenture (San Antonio, TX) in Jun 2010

      Interview

      The interview was arranged by a corporate level recruiter. The interview panel was local, two phase, and split between operational personnel and first-line management personnel. It was an unstructured interview based on discussing hypothetical scenarios. It was oral Q&A without an opportunity to white board the scenarios as they developed. It was also a blind interview in three ways: (1) little to nothing about the position and how it was structured was disclosed prior to commencing Q&A; (2) as the interview unfolded it became clear by the Q&A that the interview had little relationship with how the position was advertised on the Accenture site or described by the recruiter; (3) the specific requirements of the position were not later enumerated including how the work would be structured and what the job responsibilities would be. Management personnel were tasked with discussing the scope of the work, organizational structure, overall company objectives, career paths, compensation packages, policy, etc., but were generally reticent to do so. It appeared that local management did not function well with corporate recruitment and candidates suffered from the friction. Indeed, management started off the conversation with "what do you want to know?" Additionally, the Accenture participants did not seem prepared. We had to wait for security to unlock a conference room. The interviewers came with laptops and had to locate and hook-up to A/C and data ports and find suitable seating, with myself sitting amid a bundle of wires and cables across the table from the interviewers. Meanwhile, the manager came late, took phone calls, answered pages, and left the room a number of times during the process, displaying a sort of haughty arrogance and disdain for the interview. It was insulting.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      You have a client that consists of a work group of 50 people that need to do OLTP and/or OLAP to support their department functions. You are tasked with designing a platform to handle these processes in the most operationally efficient and effective way. You are not given technology or cost constraints for this scenario. However, you must conform to certain client requirements, specifically their choice of RDMS and OS. Given these requirements how would you design, configure and implement a suitable HW/SW platform? Explain in detail.
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      Question 2

      If you encountered one or more system building and/or configuration problems in your efforts to meet the client requirements, how would you resolve these issues. For example, if the client's choice of RDMS would not install and operate properly. Explain in detail. (You have no fore-knowledge of how the department functions or the existence of service level agreements for HW/SW systems.)
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