interviewing at Oracle next month for a senior backend role (database cloud services team). i've been trying to find recent loop data and it's scattered everywhere.
can people who've gone through Oracle interviews in the last 6-12 months drop what you saw? specifically: team/org (OCI, database, Fusion, sales-tech, other) role level number of rounds and format hardest question or most unexpected thing timeline actual vs what they told you
compiling this mostly for myself but happy to share the summary back here.
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de_derek
Oracle GoldenGate team, senior data engineer, 4 months ago. 5 rounds total: recruiter, 2 technical (one SQL/data modeling, one coding in Java), system design, behavioral. timeline was supposed to be 3 weeks, took 6. recruiter was responsive but the team side went silent for almost 2 weeks and she couldn't get status either. offer was eventually good.
hardest question was a system design around real-time data replication pipelines, very on-brand given what GoldenGate does.
market_realist
6 weeks is useful to know. i'll tell myself 6 weeks mentally so i don't spiral at week 4. thanks
infra_ines
OCI networking team, staff level, 3 months ago. 6 rounds, very deep on networking fundamentals. like, actual TCP/IP, BGP concepts, not just 'how does DNS work.' if you're going for OCI infra roles, brush up on your networking layer knowledge. they're building against AWS and they know it.
hardware_hugo
not a software role but i went through Oracle's hardware engineering process for a server platform role (they still make hardware for Exadata). completely different loop, more structured technical presentation, much less LeetCode. different world from what you're probably asking about but posting for completeness.