I interviewed for a Sales and Business Development role out of college. I met with a recruiter at a job fair, and after a 5 minute conversation with me, took my resume and said that she might be in contact with me in the near future. A few days later, she called me to schedule my first phone interview, where she asked me basic questions about my job history, why I wanted a job at Oracle, and why I'd be good for a job in sales. This first interview was 50/50 her asking me questions, and me asking her questions. After this, I had a second interview with a manager in Burlington, MA. She asked me more behavioral questions, as well as the typical "why do I want to work at Oracle" and "why do I want to work in sales" questions again. This was a very easy interview, and me and the interviewer ended up chatting about the fact that we were both from SoCal, and her move to Burlington. By the end of the interview, we'd gone past the allotted time, and she told me that i'd definitely be hearing back from my recruiter to schedule my final interview. In my final interview, I spoke with a manager who was hiring for the office that I would be working at (HQ in Redwood City). He asked me more difficult behavioral questions (talk about a time I have acted against my superior, for example), and then specific questions about my sales role (name 3 websites that you could utilize on the job to find leads; What is something that you would change about Oracle and why?) After my third interview, I was offered conditional acceptance dependent on a background check. Overall a very simple interview process that never got too difficult or intimidating.

Submitted online application. Was asked to schedule a 30-minute pre-screen phone interview with someone from talent acquisition team. Scheduled interview for that Thursday morning. Thursday morning I received an email asking to push interview to Friday morning. Fine, no problem. During phone interview the interviewer was unprepared, clearly had not read my resume, and asked several redundant questions about my background, experience and track record, all of which were clearly documented on the resume I submitted. They didn’t realize I was a former Oracle employee despite this was also clearly documented on my resume and in the application form, where former employees are asked to provide their old Oracle email address. When I raised the fact that I am an Oracle alum during the interview, they acted surprised, said they were glad I mentioned it, and asked me for my old Oracle email address, which I had already provided in the application that I guess no one bothered to look at. Despite these mildly annoying occurrences, the phone screening ended well, they provided positive feedback, said they would pass me on to the hiring manager with a “thumbs up”, and that I would hear back “either way” by Monday. I sent a thank you email and waited until Tuesday. Nothing. I reached out asking when can I expect to hear something - no response. I waited a couple more days and reached out again - again no response. It is shocking to me that people can be this callous. Don’t say you will get back to candidates either way if you have no intention to do so. Don’t ignore people’s emails asking for an update when all it takes is 30 seconds to say “sorry, we’re going in another direction”, or “sorry, we need more time to review”, or whatever. We are professionals with jobs and families and responsibilities. Playing games, lying and ignoring a candidate during an interview process shows a great deal about the kind of disrespectful, selfish company Oracle is and reminded me why I left 17 years ago.