Had 3 round of interviews. First 2 was coding rounds. Where 1 and 2 questions were asked respectively. And needed to execute them live. Third round was manegarial one. Where some puzzles and CS fundamentals related questions were asked.
Technical Prep: Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
Oracle commonly asks Easy to Medium-level questions on HackerRank, focusing on efficiency and code quality.
Key Topics: Arrays, Strings, HashMaps, Linked Lists, Binary Trees, and Graphs.
Common Problems: Inverting a binary tree, merging sorted arrays, and finding the first non-repeating character in a string.
Focus: Practice communicating your thought process out loud ("think out loud") and optimizing for both time and space complexity.
1st round elimination.
4 rounds of loop interview.
Loop rounds- 1 DSA Hard
HLD
LLD
Bar Raiser round.
Interview experience was average. First interviewer was not supportive in DSA. In spite of giving 3 solutions, he wanted to hear one that he had predetermined
El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Oracle (Zúrich) en jun 2025
Entrevista
Was for a position at one of their labs and took a bit under a month.
1. Screening call with HR with basic behavioural/experience question.
2. 2x technical interviews (LLMs, parallelism, databases, etc) with coding components.
3. Hiring manager interview (behavioural, technical).
Overall the interviewers were timely, pleasant and reasonable. Often they asked questions about many different areas and went more in depth based on my experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Describe 3 different optimisations applied to LLM inference.
