I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Santa Clara, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Recruiter setup the phone interview with the hiring manager. Problem is to implement an in-memory view counting system. Need to return the accumulated count per hour of requested hour in the last 24 hours. The manager intentionally presented the problem vague at first. So needed a lot of clarification.
I thought I did pretty well, but it seems the hiring manager just hold my case there. I asked recruiter to check status, recruiter could not get anything. Then after several weeks I received the rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
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Implement an in-memory view counting system. Need to return the accumulated count per hour of requested hour in the last 24 hours.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Tóquio) in Apr 2025
Interview
1. CV screening 2. Around 30 minutes interview with HR 3. Around 30-40 minutes interview with hiring manager (non-technical) 4. 1 hour technical interview (not leetcode style, kind of mix of technical and behavioral questions, situational questions around technical knowledge)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Why am I applying for Oracle 2. Past experience (CV) 3. Questions around git 4. Questions about python knowledge (thread, multiprocessing, generators, background tasks etc) 5. Bug fix flow situational questions 6. Observability and feature development cycle topics 7. AI (RAG, building blocks of AI chat bots, prompt engineering etc)
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Hyderābād) in Apr 2025
Interview
Everything was good. I have 4 rounds of technical interview each round is on dsa and Java related questions. First round took by software engineer, second and third rounds took by senior and architect. Final round took by manager each round went for atleast 1hr to 3 hrs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dsa and problem solving and Java strings, sting pool. Binary search, heals, dp recursion.