Oracle Applications Engineer IV interview questions

First round was telephonic interview with the hiring manager, checked basic details and a couple of simple programming questions - reverse a string in-place, count occurrences of characters in string. Second round was another telephonic interview with another manager, detailed questions on Pointers in C and basic SQL. Third round was candidate project involving PHP and Zend framework. This took a couple of weeks and is challenging depending on your background. I was then called for an in-house interview. There were four rounds of interview, moderately difficult questions on design, linked lists, etc. Final round was a telephonic interview with a director, purely non-technical questions - what's your strengths and weaknesses, why do you want to work for Oracle, etc The whole process took 3 months, I was then given a verbal offer saying the approval process for formal offer has to go through several levels of hierarchy and will take a couple of months. No offer in sight after 4 months and on asking them they say it will happen in a month. :D :P Reflects the beaureacratic nature of the org.