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I have always found this quite amusing that every company I have ever applied to for a job has SQL in required skills and yet not a single one of them has ever
by iamsb 7y ago
I have always found this quite amusing that every company I have ever applied to for a job has SQL in required skills and yet not a single one of them has ever interviewed me on it.
- nogabebop23 7y agoIt's because they have a database on the back end and you need to be able to write "SELECT * FROM [foo]" to get data. I'd actually be really pissed if a company asked me to write a query like "count these orders by month in a single row" not because I couldn't do it but because I'm confident I'd screw up the syntax a couple of times. I think they should ask more conceptual questions around set theory or storage structure, epsecially since they all want "SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, etc". Nobody can stay on top of all the platform specifics, but someone who knows their stuff can answer the udnerlying problems.
- innocentoldguy 7y agoI've had the same experience. Furthermore, I haven't worked at a company who actually uses SQL since the early 2000s. Since then, every company has used some kind of ORM.
- commandlinefan 7y agoI always get the same single question: “explain the difference between an inner join and an outer join”. They seem to figure if I can answer that, I know everything I need to know.