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Updated May 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer at Oracle
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2008 in Redwood City, CA (took a day)
Applied online. Was offered an interview onsite with 5 groups, about 1 hour for each group. Each group asked me questions about my background, specifically the projects I worked on. Everyone was quite nice and respectful. They took me out to lunch onsite with people unrelated to the groups I was interviewing so that I could ask more direct questions, if needed.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Oracle
Posted Sep 8, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Redwood City, CA (took 4 days)
I was contacted by a manager after having submitted my resume for a specific position. I spoke with him about the position and about his team. A few days later I went in for an interview. The team members seemed to be very sharp and all seemed to get along very well. I was asked specific questions in a number of one-on-one interviews about PL/SQL syntax, using PL/SQL collections, using JDBC in a Java program to iterate through a result set, various considerations when tuning a SQL database, how indexes affect execution plans of SQL, why indexing is important and how B+-tree indexes work.
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Reason for Declining
I thought the set of responsibilities assigned to this position was a bit more limited than I was looking for. Also, many of the technologies that were being employed were Oracle-specific and did not really excite me. Some examples are Oracle ADF and BC4J.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Principal Consultant at Oracle
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in Belmont, CA (took 2+ weeks)
Applied online and interviewed with technical director and several consultants. Long process to interview and complete background check compared to most companies. Salary not good compared to most companies. Benefits are good and workload heavy based on what Oracle employees told me.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Background Check.
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Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle
Posted May 5, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2008 in Redwood City, CA (took 2 weeks)
After I talked to the hiring manager over the phone - general discussion around the kind of work I had done - Went for the 1:1 interview and met the two senior directors and 3 software engineers. Almost all of them has design questions ranging from designing an elevator system to a Casino machine. There were some nice Java questions related to datastructures and their usage. Overall I came out very happy from the interview room.
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Reason for Declining
I got a better offer from my current employer.
One strange thing about Oracle is it takes almost forever to get offer approval after accepting it. Though, this is what I heard from the recruiter that they'll take about 2 weeks to few months to get an approval after I have verbally accepted their offer.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Interaction Designer at Oracle
Posted Mar 23, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2007 in Redwood City, CA (took 1+ week)
The university recruiter contacted me first and put me in touch with my (future) manager.
There were 2 initial phone interviews. The interviewers were very easy to talk to and genuinely interested in getting to understand your goals. There were a few questions like "How would you handle a situation... blah".
The second phase was flying out for a day long interview. The first part of it was an hour long presentation. Then there were 4-5 one on one interviews with people who attended the presentation. In the middle of the day there was also a design challenge. It is a tiring day but hang in there.
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Negotiation Details
I did not negotiate and didn't feel the need to either, since they offered me a better package than most other companies at the time. When considering an offer, consider not only the base pay but also the benefits, Oracle has great benefits which immediately put them pretty high up in compensation in my judgement.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at Oracle
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in Redwood City, CA (took 1 week)
I was already an Oracle employee in Brazil and applied for jobs in different product development teams at Oracle HQ through internal iRecruitment (which is also available externally at http://irecruitment.oracle.com). Got contacted for some of those applications but my case required L1 visa sponsorship so not every 1st contact was fruitful. But for this particular one, there was green light for international transfers and I went through the interview phase which basically consisted of 4 formal phone interviews, with 4 different interviewers: 2 other software engineers, 1 product manager, and 1 director. Only the 2 engineers made very technical interviews, basically focused on Java and logic, that lasted for about 1 hour each and had a medium-high difficulty level. The other 2 interviews were more about to know my professional experience and objectives and also to let me know more about the job. After that, I got the positive feedback in about a week and then, in my case, the whole approval process for my job offer took more than a month and then, finally, I could start the real transfer process, which took a couple more months and now I'm here and quite happy so far.
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Negotiation Details
In my case, I had to negotiate 2 things: my career level and salary and my relocation package.
My level in Oracle Brazil was 1 lower than the level asked in the job position and because of the fact I was being transferred they wanted to keep my level which meant a lower salary. I was able to negotiate and come at the right level with a salary within my acceptable range. As for the relocation, we had basically 2 options. The first was a total budget of about 15K USD that would be administered by a third-party contracted by Oracle. The second was a lump-sum of 7.5K USD that I'd receive to cover my own expenses. I was going with the 1st but after I saw the budgets for moving expenses from that third-party company, I decided to go with the 2nd option and in my case it was enough.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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