ATOS Origin Interview this week

memyselfandi · 7 Jul 2010 at 17:32

Mikey said:
Don't work for Paul Bradley do you?

At times wish I was still there, but EH got the better of me. Company I work for I understand are bidding on EH!

Nope never worked for him, but I know Paul

Mikey · 7 Jul 2010 at 17:39

memyselfandi said:
Nope never worked for him, but I know Paul

Say hi

bis01aa1 · 6 Sep 2012 at 15:42

Hi - Got an interview as DBA in Nottingham.

Any tips? would really appreciated.

LordSplodge · 6 Sep 2012 at 15:42

ATOS? I'd rather be unemployed than work for those scumbags...

LordSplodge · 6 Sep 2012 at 15:44

bis01aa1 said:
Hi - Got an interview as DBA in Nottingham.

Any tips? would really appreciated.

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Basher · 6 Sep 2012 at 15:47

LordSplodge said:
ATOS? I'd rather be unemployed than work for those scumbags...

I assume that's from experience of working with them rather than reading the Daily Mail?

I've worked with them, a lot, and they're great.

Cosimo · 6 Sep 2012 at 16:08

LordSplodge said:
ATOS? I'd rather be unemployed than work for those scumbags...

So what did they do or not do for you?

ethan · 6 Sep 2012 at 16:19

assume that's from experience of working with them rather than reading the Daily Mail?

I wouldn't expect the Daily Mail to say a bad word about them? :rolleyes:

TheDean · 6 Sep 2012 at 16:24

Just applied for a job with them based on this thread! Certainly one of the easier website applications:

"What's your name"
"Upload CV"

done

jamief · 6 Sep 2012 at 16:46

LordSplodge said:
ATOS? I'd rather be unemployed than work for those scumbags...

I presume you mean ATOS Healthcare, rather than ATOS Origin? Or have ATOS Origin, the global IT provider, done something to upset you?

Basher · 6 Sep 2012 at 17:34

jamief said:
I presume you mean ATOS Healthcare, rather than ATOS Origin? Or have ATOS Origin, the global IT provider, done something to upset you?

You mean Atos? There is no Atos Origin any more.

LordSplodge · 6 Sep 2012 at 18:19

Basher said:
I assume that's from experience of working with them rather than reading the Daily Mail?.

I have experience of family members being assessed by the branch that runs the benefit assessment. I'm actually more angry at the Govermnet for the terrible way they're handling disability claims but ATOS share responsibility.

jamief said:
I presume you mean ATOS Healthcare, rather than ATOS Origin? Or have ATOS Origin, the global IT provider, done something to upset you?

it's part of the same same company.

memyselfandi · 6 Sep 2012 at 22:01

bis01aa1 said:
Hi - Got an interview as DBA in Nottingham.

Any tips? would really appreciated.

- mention the importance of change control (standard ITIL stuff)
- if you know anything about Lean you might want to mention that
- Atos were systems integrator for the Olympics (and have been for quite a few of them) ... hence the Atos lanyards all over the place ... so mention that.

If your interview is really soon then allow a little extra time to get there if going by public transport as the station exit by the office is currently closed which adds some extra time to stroll around (supposed to re-open next Monday but the speed the council are working on it ...)

So the DBA area have been recruiting too ... I know that Unix and Storage have been recruiting quite heavily recently.

No1newts · 6 Sep 2012 at 22:05

The main thing, as some have mentioned, is to know your exPerience and be able to relate it to the role you will be doing.

I have been interviewing and hiring for about 6-7 years now and if someone cannot do the above they get nowhere near the role despite how glib they are or how good their CV is.

Good luck!

SiD the Turtle · 6 Sep 2012 at 22:41

Is the Nottingham office still in that horrible old ex railways building? Back in my Atos days met some great people there, but the office was nasty!

Good luck with the interview!

memyselfandi · 7 Sep 2012 at 05:40

SiD the Turtle said:
Is the Nottingham office still in that horrible old ex railways building? Back in my Atos days met some great people there, but the office was nasty!

Good luck with the interview!

No, Atos moved from there quite some time ago (and in fact that building has been demolished and the site is being redeveloped ... about time too). The office is now in Beeston (for the IT side at least, I think there is a Healthcare office elsewhere in Nottingham but have no knowledge of it).

bis01aa1 · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:05

Hi - Thanks guys for the info.

Any thing else which is HOT at ATOS?

memyselfandi · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:27

Security and Cloud (and security in shared cloud environments) ... but I'm not sure how that will really fit with what you are interviewing for.

bis01aa1 · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:34

Thanks again - Are you guys using RAC? Also 11g Oracle? DO you know how many DBA's there are at ATOS Nottingham?

Thanks in Advance

memyselfandi · 7 Sep 2012 at 10:39

You could be faced with any version of Oracle from ~7 to 11g, RAC, Exadata etc ... basically it's outsourcing so anything and everything.

MO side there probably less than 10 DBAs in Beeston, (more at other locations around the country I suspect in cross site virtual teams). SI side I don't know as I don't have much contact with that area.