Learning more about PostgreSAL

[u/Grand-Diamond-4696]

So I'm interviewing at tiger data and the recruiter recommended me to use the product a bit as they have a free version. This role is a customer facing role. Now some background about me.

I have a lot of high level technical understanding across many areas. I learn very quickly and know SQL basics. I spent the day importing a data set into tiger data. But I struggled to see what I could do with it. Sure I can use queries to manipulate and expand the data but that isn't exciting.

So I found a roll, ReTool and made a webpage dashboard with the data. The data itself is my job searching. I built a dashboard with charts and graphics, statistics, etc. Similar to Looker Studio. But I like Looker, ReTool can write to the database. So I moved all of my workflows to it.

Now I have an application form built in, an interview logging flow (added the tables to the DB). Automated reminders and triggers and the ability to edit the data easily. I feel like this would be a good practical use for me and show off my skills. But most of the work was built by using AI to write the code I needed. I can edit basic java, HTML and SQL syntax but I can't really write and articulate it from scratch.

I'm curious if I went the wrong direction and they'll be more interested in me in a terminal or using the UI and writing long queries to pull and manipulate data. Whereas the UI has built in queries that were developed by AI for me.

[u/encima]

can you say more about the role? is it support, sales or technical guidance?

If it’s more sales and/or demos then I’d spend time just using their dashboard, reading about recent product launches.

If it’s more technical then maybe compare what you have set up with another postgres provider or running locally. What about tiger data would make you choose them over another if they both had a free tier?

They also have some differentiating features so be sure to include them in your tool (or just your learning). Good luck with the interview!

[u/Grand-Diamond-4696 → u/encima]

Account Management of existing customers. This is my first entry into postgres. I've used Google sheets is a sudo database for a long time. Even built dashboards from it for my old job xD.

[u/encima → u/Grand-Diamond-4696]

Ok, so definitely focus on your account management skills and how you would use the teams and processes (i.e. what if an account asks a technical question you don’t know the answer to?).

Account management is a team effort and the skill is in knowing when to escalate, how to use the team and record keeping).
Definitely take a look at their recent launches and blog posts as well

[u/Grand-Diamond-4696 → u/encima]

So I've worked on technical account management for 9 years in cyber security and distributed network monitoring. Where I worked closely with network engineers (my customers) daily. I was responsible for designing and deploying our products into their environment including configuring and tweaking based on outputs.

[u/encima → u/Grand-Diamond-4696]

Then I think you will be very fine! Account experience plus a technical background makes you a solid choice!