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Senior Software Engineer at Oracle
Posted Apr 7, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 weeks)
I had 3 rounds of interviews all were technical. Initial 2 rounds were telephonic and 3rd was F2F in bangalore. It was a good knowledge sharing session rather than interview. In third round a Manager talked to me about their project. and he took a technical round of C C++. I am still waiting for HR cal for salary part.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and 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 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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