I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle
Interview
A long interview process, consist of 4 rounds in total.
First round would be a simple screening with the hiring manager. Basically self introduction on the background and some basic technical questions.
Second round was the technical test to test on coding especially.
Third round was an interview with a senior software engineer. A repetative round similar to the first round.
Forth round was with the stakeholders. Again another repetative round similar to the first round.
In conclusion, the interview process took about 1 month. Repetative process with different stakeholders. Management could think of minimizing them by merging the interviews into one. Moreover, it is quite dissapointing that the hiring team shortlisted a few candidates into the final round. It is giving a false hope and a huge disappointment, especially when a candidate went through so many layers and it was still not selected at the end. Perhaps the hiring team may have proper filter on the selection process and shortlist the candidates one-by-one to the final round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you gather requirements with business users?
1 technical phone screen covering basic networking and data structures, followed by a 4-round onsite loop focused heavily on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) scale challenges. The rounds were split between low-level system execution, multi-tenant cloud architecture, and standard relational/non-relational database trade-offs. The interviewers kept drilling into network virtualization, hypervisors, and storage layers.
To prep, I needed to brush up on high-throughput cloud networking patterns and storage engine internals. I utilized Apex Interviewer to simulate full cloud infrastructure design problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a highly secure, multi-tenant virtual cloud network block storage migration system that allows live volume transfers between physical data centers without dropping active I/O operations.
Mostly coding question focused, and some talking about personal experience and terms. Some technical design, you could have chosen any language to complete the coding questions. Questions were simple technical concepts that person came up with at the moment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something like searching in logs using maps and filter/find data
decent amount of DSA and System design were asked, and behavioral questions. so prepare leetcode level questions and good amount knowledge in sql, java and also mostly oracle sql. overall it was good
