Oracle Software Engineer Interview Handbook

Interview Process

Here is what to expect in Oracle interview for ICs:

Recruiter Pre-screen (30 mins) - Initial screening based on resume. Questions related to your past experience and accomplishments. No coding.
Online Coding Challenge (60 mins) – You will solve a coding question through HackerRank or an online code editor.
Onsite Loop (4-5 interviews) - Coding, design, and behavioral questions.
Coding (2 interviews) – 1-2 coding questions solved on a whiteboard in 45 mins.
Design – Collaborative discussion with the interviewer. Drawing on a whiteboard to solve a system design question.
Hiring Manager (behavioral + design) – Deep-dive into your past projects and detailed discussion on your current work experience. Will include technical design discussion.
Bartender(BT) round - Similar to Amazon's Bar Raiser, an engineer or manager outside of the team will interview you. Mostly behavioral questions but can include a design question. Questions about your motivation, people interactions, challenges, and work ethic. Sample questions: Tell me about a time when you worked with someone whose personality was different from yours. While working on a team, how did you deal with a conflict?

Data Structures - Practice data structures like Heaps, HashTable, Tree, LinkedList, Stack, Queue, and Graph.
Algorithm - Practice recursion, Merge-Sort, Quick-Sort, Breadth-first search, Depth-first search, Divide and Conquer, and Dynamic Programming.
Collaborate – For design interviews, don't forget to collaborate with the interviewer, present multiple solutions, and take hints from the discussion.