I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at IBM (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
Interview
It was moderate for a 4-year DBA—you need to cover all the basics and multiple technologies, such as MS SQL/ Oracle/Mongodb.
Cloud technology is mandatory for most jobs, and both Azure and AWS would be great for your career.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. What is TUF(Transaction undo file)?
Q.AAG - inner concepts
Q. Azure sql db vs azure sql managed instance
scenario-based:
Q. Fix High CPU
Q. unable to log in forthe user and has all the required permissions
Q. DB went to suspect state ?
Q. Tempdb collation - we use CMD to connect to the server
Q Best recommendations for tempdb
Q. Give me some DMV lists and uses?
Q Definition - clustered index - wrong
Q. What is a Heap index - No clustered index and few non-CI.
Q. How do you fix a slow database issue? Jobs are running slower than expected
Q. log shipping - Def.
Q. Logspace issue - shrink, take a backup, create a new log file for a temporary purpose, go to properties, and increase the size.
Q. Failover types
Q. Synchronous and Asynchronous commit in AAG.
Q. Performance tuning for an long-running query
Q. Lazy writer and checkpoint
Q. Fix -Orphan user
Q. TDE?(Transparent data encryption)
Q. What is are difference between any two SQL servers (From 2016 to 2019 or 2019 to 2022)
Interviewer first asked about my projects and then went on to ask Database and Operating Systems concepts. I had to write sql queries and answer several os questions. The interview lasted for 40 minutes
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an sql query to get highest salary from employees table
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at IBM (Bangalore Rural) in Mar 2025
Interview
in the aptitude all the questions were from computer networks and operating systems.
The first round was the group discussion and after that you will be shortlisted for the Technical Interview where again they ask questions from the computer networks, operating systems and they also consider any major certification program experience apart from your degree.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They were asking that I am comfortable with the job profile or not as it was kind of hardware level system engineer job as you have to switch your field from software engineer to a hardware engineer.