Did any forumer working in the Penang's DELL company ???
is that good ? if compare with those Intel, Motorolla, Agilent ???
how is the salary ?? I just get the phone interview from Dell yesterday, waiting for the 2nd interview...
any comment ?
thank you ..

Last few weeks I have a phone interview conference with DELL Penang and  DELL Texas. Questions more to technical. Then suddenly today got a call from them for the face to face interview on next two week, with their Senior IT Manager.

B4 going to the interview I need to know the working environment there, is it OK? What question that they always ask or any tips for me for the interview especially with DELL.

I apply for Wintel Systems Engineer but in the offer letter stated IT Engineer.

Technical questions that they ask just a basic Windows questions, such as:
- what protocol involved in PING function?
- question on ipconfig command, tracert command etc
- what the standard port for Microsoft SQL?
- how the clustering work?
- where to set the virtual memory setting?
- load balancing questions..
- etc (cannot remember already)

job's pretty good here. those working on positions with shift work and/or OT will find that their salary can go up to almost 50% more at the end of the mth.
yes, most of the time, u really have to work ur @$$ off, but at least dell really compensate their staff on that.

congrats to those coming into IT. IT has damn a lot of lenglui new hires lately. hahaha.

the girls in dell are quite pretty . phone inteviews are just to gauge your knoledge on the subject, to see if u know ur stuff. the dont look for correct answers (but dun la try to bsh*t your way) but how you answer or approach the question/problem.

if they really like u and ur really good, for 2nd interview they will gao dim ur expenses to penang, for me they flew me down to penang with MAS airlines. i was like oO when i saw the ticket price. lolz

the technology which i will be working with is pretty top notch, and the hardware they provide us is also very very good.

color ya its normal, i also got the same thing IT Engineer I

Perhaps different department has different kind of administration style.

I thought you have been hired already ...

Guess that your application at Agilent won't be a success. I think you need to put that aside. Sorry to say so ...

Regarding technical questions on database, you might need to read up some basic commands on SQL.

They may ask you basic concept of database; distributed database, parallel processing, transactions, E-R diagram, bla bla.

DB configuration might not be asked as it varies on which DBMS the company used; Oracle, Access, IBM DB2 and etc. I think they might ask you on database model, database development life cycle over software development life cycle and bla bla.

Do they tell you the scope of that Database Analyst position? Base on what I know last time they do have data analyst and database developer. Now thier data analyst change name to reporting analyst, since this post is more toward format report and analysis stuff.

For database developer it is kinda like a DBA, u should know most of the thing regarding to the DB. Below is the job description from dell website.

-Administer, maintain and design Oracle or MS SQL databases.
- Develop and design complex stored procedures, triggers,
  loaders, DTS packages, and implement extraction logic
- Responsible for performance, reliability, security of database,
  database monitoring and tuning.
- Provide technical assistance in identifying, evaluating,
  and developing systems and procedures as related to IT.
- Develop technical solutions with the development team

From my experience SQL syntax is slightly vary from diffrent DB that you're working with. I have working with Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL before.