I applied online. I interviewed at Oracle (Budapest) in Nov 2025
Interview
A long winded HR screening (1-1.5h), then a technical round 2-2.5h and after that a Manager Interview. Salary ranges for IC4-IC5 were very low, 20-30% lower than other similar companies at this time.
The questions revolved mostly around very basic Java Core and Spring Core stuff and some old design patterns, literally a sloppy selection of the classic "top 100 Java Interview Questions". Despite this being Principal/Architect role, I received almost no questions around Software Architecture, and absolutely no System Design questions. It felt like a simple Senior dev interview from 2010, with sloppy interviewers who have no idea what they are looking for and spent 0 time coming up with meaningful questions. A well prepared medior or senior dev could have passed the interview easily.
Behavioural questions revolved mostly around fighting and convincing your own managers, some of these were poorly explained and I felt that they were looking for a particular response, not typical negotiation/conflict resolution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Final, finally
Bean Scopes in spring
Old Java Design patterns: Proxy, Adapter, Facade
How would you implement a singleton?
Gotcha Snippets ( == / equals / instanceof and other quirky, autoboxing and unboxing gotcha questions)
What would you say if your manager turns your proposal down, says simply "this is not how we used to do things", then refuses to elaborate.