I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (New York, NY) in Sept 2021
Interview
It was for OCI. Had 8 interviews in total:
Initial interviews:
- Recruiter
- Tech screen (Technical questions/concepts)
Whole day:
- 3 Developers (coding + behavioral)
- Engineering Mgr
- Engineering Director
Follow-up:
- Engineering Mgr
Result: Ghosted me. No even a rejection letter even after a follow up. Feedback would have been appreciated. Seems standard with these folks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic LC style. Easy/Medium and wanted to know your thought process and they emphasize on behavioral questions. Did ok and had positive vibes from interviewers.
Round with Eng Directory design questions was kinda tough. Design a CDN service. Didnt do well as I know little about CDN. Didnt provide any details how it should work.
Follow-up interview:
More behavioral. Asked about Java trivia question which I wasn't able to answer satisfactorily. Question around "static" on classes, functions etc .
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
