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S&P Global interviews FAQs
Database Administrator applicants have rated the interview process at S&P Global with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Database Administrator roles take an average of 6 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at S&P Global overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at S&P Global as a Database Administrator according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
IQ intelligence test: 23%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 15%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at S&P Global (Chennai) in Aug 2013
Interview
1st round: technical + aptitude organised by MATRIX CUbe
2nd round: written test where a set of tables were given from programmer interview.com and querries were to be written down
3rd round: tech interview
4th round: tech and HR interview
5th round: Phone interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about normalisation techniques with detail analysis of the probelms occuring at each step
indexes and types of indices
So the interview started and there were 3 people who interviewed me one had around like 12 yrs exp in Oracle and other two of them around 9+ yrs in Database. They didn't allow me at least one question to answer completely..ever time complete one sentence they start interrupting in between and asking all the loops which were a very high level questions. That was just the 1st round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
an you explain how you would design a highly available and fault-tolerant database system for a global enterprise?"
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at S&P Global (Hyderābād) in Oct 2014
Interview
It was a 4 rounds interview process. First one was aptitude and multiple choice questions on all the CS topics which were not tough. 3 rounds of interview was totally on databases and little bit of Operating Systems. 4th round of interview was HR.