I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2018
Interview
I spoke to a recruiter and then attended an informational session with the hiring manager who took the time to explain what the team does, what roles are available, and what it's like working on the team. I then asked to go ahead and interview and a phone screen was promptly scheduled. I had a positive response on the phone screen the next day and we scheduled an interview. The interview process was very normal: about an hour with each interviewer including lunch with the hiring manager and the questions were mostly situational and behavioral, focusing on my work experience. The technical questions were relevant to the area in question and I was able to ask a few questions of the interviewers as well. The hiring manager called me within two days of the interview to offer me the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how virtual memory works on a typical processor and why we use it.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Oracle (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Fairly easy tech screen. Loop was a bit of a mess. Coding portions required AI which was not mentioned ahead of time. One of the interviewers told me to find bugs in some code using AI, but accidentally pasted the solution instead of the buggy code which led to issues.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Oracle (Nashville, TN)
Interview
Standard coding screen followed by loop rounds.
Loop rounds -
1. System design - focused on the infra aspect more
2. Behavioral - turned into technical quickly and did some white boarding to explain how I cracked a problem.
3. Bartender - as they are all from platform team, most of their questions were targeted for infra position and that confused me.
Bias for action seemed very important for them than any other principle.
Coding - another leetcode medium and was easy to solve.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design - Youtube using barebones infra instead of ootb services
The interviews were mostly medium level leetcode questions. Takes a lot longer than you would expect. About 3 months from beginning to end. The offer stage and background stage take the longest
