Never worked at a DB business, but feel confident that > "diving into an unfamiliar area of the code and quickly figuring it out" was very important for us. U

Never worked at a DB business, but feel confident that > "diving into an unfamiliar area of the code and quickly figuring it out" was very important for us. Universally applies to all software jobs. What's I find interesting (based on my own personal history) is not only the ability to solve a task in an unfamiliar code base, but also do so without creating side effects (like say quadrupling the size of a binary since you incremented a poorly named constant that is reused as a size of a memory allocation by multiplying itself with itself).