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Updated Feb 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Negative	11%

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Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 in Prague (Czech Republic) (took a day)

The overall opinion about interview is like "they want to prove that you don't know anything and they are the master of masters". Very poor approach and communication skills. The interview process organized very poor. They are looking for coder-robot people.
Overall experience - negative.

Interview Questions

what IDE you have been using.

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tell us about your background

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what is the difference between Vector and ArrayList

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Java generics - tell us from which version it was in the JDK and why to use them

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the final keyword in java
final method/class etc

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Other Details

I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)

Interview was based on testing my abilities in JAVA. Rather than judging my JAVA skills, they started judging my attitude and how I talk to people.

Interview Questions

There is no question which I found as difficult.

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Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2010 in San Diego, CA (took a day)

As with most companies, an interview in a company can vary widely depending on who just happens to be your interviewer(s). This particular interview was less technical and focused more on the "soft skills" - what was my work style preference, how did I handle conflicts with others, etc etc. The technical part was average difficulty.

Interview Questions

What is your greatest weakness?

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Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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Yes | No

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jul 2010 (took 3 weeks)

1 Telephone Round , 3 1:1 Interviews , 1 Coding Round , 1 Practice Test

Interview Questions

Describe Your Best project done ?

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Describe a situation when you had to take a tough decision ?

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Negotiation Details

Yes , Negotiations are possible . Negotiate well before joining the company , its very tough getting a raise when working with the company.

Other Details

I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

Previous work experiences, a technical quiz

Interview Questions

BTree structure , recursive functions with fork, and Fibonacci algorithms.

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Negotiation Details

not so bad

Other Details

I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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1.0

Very Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 2 days)

Each department has their own style of interview. Most departments spent most of the time explaining what the department does and the organization. There were very few personal questions.

The former Sun departments were much different. In those, I was asked technical questions, as well as questions about my background. For example, the Solaris team asked many questions about C, operating systems, and relevant mathematics.

Interview Questions

How would you use a union in C?

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Yes | No

Inappropriate?

2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Nov 2011 in Redwood City, CA (took 1 week)

Was emailed by the recruiter for an onsite invitation without any phone interviews.

Was told to pick from a set of short listed groups, mostly revolving around databases. Groups were selected by the recruiter from what they think matches my resume best. Some of the groups selected weren't really what I was interested in.

Out of the groups I selected I only met with 1 group, the recruiter added 2 more groups which I did not select to my set of interviews for the onsite.

Only did 3 interviews for my onsite, few technical questions. Interviewers were generally friendly and comfortable to talk to.

Interview Questions

Identify thread safe regions in a piece of code

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Write a simple SQL statement to find people with the same last name but not the same autogenerated ID in the same table.

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Other Details

I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

3.0

Average Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 days)

I was warned off by current employees/friends that working at Oracle was not a good thing at all

Interview Questions

Can you start right away?

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Can you program in this language?

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Reason for Declining

Talk about how bad it is inside Oracle, mostly

Other Details

The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Inappropriate?

4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 in Conshohocken, PA (took 1+ week)

Contacted by internal recruiter via phone and email. First interview was technical phone screen. Second interview was technical phone interview and online collaboration coding assessment. Third interview was in-person panel interview with team members (developer, designer and hiring manager). Background check and offer process can take up to three weeks after the interview process is complete.

Interview Questions

Implement an IEnumerable class (C# coding skill test).

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Negotiation Details

Negotiated vacation time.

Other Details

I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.

Helpful Interview?

Yes | No

Inappropriate?

4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Menlo Park, CA (took 2 weeks)

One hour phone interview, asked some questions about the projects that I worked on. And then asked some algorithm questions, the questions is very simply. One week later, get an on-site interview. the interview has 3 rounds:
The first round: Questions related to OS, Kernel etc.
The second round: Questions about the projects I have worked on, like which one is your favorite and why, describe the technical details.
The finial round: Questions about data structures and algorithms. Sort a linked list, improve the performance by multi-thread (suppose on a multi-core system).