My Interview @Bank of America

Well, here I wanted to explain about my experience of interview process held at Bank of America. I wanted to share this experience so that other upcoming interviewees can have an idea before appearing for an interview there.

It was quite exciting recruiting process from starting to end. I received a call from recruiter, Nilima Pange, regarding the position available for the post of Sr. Analyst and agreed to schedule an interview call for a telephonic discussion after knowing the requirement they have. At scheduled time, I received interview call and it started with a warm introduction.

Excellent technical discussion started from areas of

•        General database discussions – majorly database concepts, Architecture
•         Oracle Real Application Cluster 11g (RAC)
•         Data Guard – Physical standby database, Snapshot standby and Cascade Standby database.
•         Recover Manager (RMAN) – Backup & Recovery
•         Data Pump – Tradition export/import Vs Data Pump
•         Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting
•         Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and its benefits

This interview discussion went up to 1 hour.

It was very interesting technical discussion and it ended with a little fun and good luck by the interviewer.

A day after first technical round, I received a follow up call by recruiter that I was gone through the first technical round of interview and next technical discussion would be the face to face at their Office premise, Gurgaon location.

Well, I would like to say that two things always excite me much in my life always, the first is sitting in an exam and the 2^nd one is to be interviewed, no matter if I miss the answer of some questions but it leads to a new level of learning. It actually reveals about me that where I stand once I get its result, and it works as a mentor where do I need to improve myself if I missed something out there.

I reached at the “Bank of America” venue at Gurgaon facility for the face to face technical discussion. I waited (well, your patience is your power) for my turn to get interviewed as multiple interview schedules were there and interview rooms were occupied already. It was a video conference from Hyderabad and it again started with a warm introduction and welcoming me there for the technical discussion, two interviewers were there to interview in this 2^nd round of technical discussion, and it was the final one.

And again technical discussion started with areas of followings:

•             Data Guard – Troubleshooting scenarios (Only real time problem solving approach)
•         Oracle Real Application cluster 11g Release 2(various scenarios from this area)
•         Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
•         Backup & Recovery scenarios – RMAN and Data Pump
•         Database Performance tuning scenarios
•         Database Migration Methodologies – RMAN & Data Pump and across RDBMS version
•         Oracle database Upgrade Methods - 9i>10g>11g>12c
•         Oracle Database Patching – RAC and non-RAC databases
•         Database cross-platform migration
•         Data Pump new features and performance enhancement from earlier versions.
•         Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control – Consolidated monitoring and its benefits.
•         Oracle Cloud – Cloud services and its merits
•         Oracle Exadata Database Machine – its unique features.
•         Linux Shell scripting,
•         Oracle RAC troubleshooting on windows platforms – ASM and RDBMS.
•         Oracle Golden Gate replication
•         Bundle of general database discussions J

This second round of interview held for around 1 hour and 28 minutes, and the most unique thing was that we (the interviewers & me) were having smile on our faces during whole interview process – it was great thing J

Finally, there was a great positive feedback from interviewer in the end of the technical discussion and they wished me all the best for further processing J

And two days after second round of technical discussion, I received call from recruiter and had discussion about HR stuffs and was invited for the offer and I was requested to submit my all required documents for further offer processing and verification and finally received my offer letter in next few days.

I thanks to the recruiter, Nilima Pange, who has been so smooth in whole recruitment process and it is amazing the way she interacts step by step….Excellent J

I will be joining Bank of America on 21 July 2017 J

Thanks,

-Raj Kumar Kushwaha