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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 19, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Oracle (Boston, MA) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      Oracle Health. Applied late April. Entire process took about a month and a half. All interviews were virtual/video. Was first contacted by a recruiter about 2 weeks after applying, they set up a video interview (they even require you to upload an image of yourself for some reason) just to go over incredibly basic screener questions that could have been a standard phonecall. This went well and I was invited for a technical screener a day later which was scheduled for the following week. Technical screener went well, it was a very basic coding questions (you really just needed to know how "if-else" loops worked to solve it). Interviewer was very friendly and it was a good chat. He told me to look out for the next interview invite which I received the following day. The recruiter reached out to me again and this time it was for the "final" loop interview, which was to consist of 5 separate interviews. They first ask for days you're available but its pretty difficult to schedule around a normal work schedule with 5 one hour interviews spread over a week (at this point I had already taken an entire day of PTO for this process). Their initial schedule split 5 interviews across 2 weekdays but I opted to move it to the following week so that I could do all 5 in one day as to not interupt my current job too much. The 1st loop interview was a systems interview, after a brief intro about Oracle Health there was almost no questions directed at me or my resume. Most of the time slot was dedicated to a single question (visually map out a system that takes client info, sends it to the company's servers and saves it in a database where it can be retrieved by another customer). I really didn't have any background in designing systems like these but I think I did okay. 2nd interview was coding. The problem was to design an LRU cache but there was a lot of emphasis that they didn't need it to be functional and seemed to care more about the thinking/planning element of it. I put together mostly some pseudo code and explained my thought process, interviewer was pretty pushy and seemed to almost get upset at times while I was describing how it would work, not sure if that was just him or if he was trying to see how one would work under pressure. I managed to keep my cool and clear up the confusion and he seemed satisfied with my solution. (These last two were back-to-back in the morning, I then had an hour break) The 3rd interview was coding, again. This time it was a hard Leetcode problem (1186: "Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion"). I'm not great with Leetcode and especially not hard ones so I did pretty bad on this one. The interviewer seemed pretty disappointed that I wasn't able to solve it but I at least talked through my thinking and where I was having difficulty. He tried to help a bit at the end but then we ran out of time so I wasn't even able to ask him any questions. Definitely my worst interview of the 7. (I then had another hour break) The 4th interview was by far the easiest, just a standard behavioral interview so no surprises. (Asked about working with difficult people, making difficult decisions, etc). For the first time that day I actually got a chance to actually ask some of my own questions. The 5th loop interview was with a director and was a bit of a mix of easy coding, behavioral, and general chatting. He first had me do fizzbuzz which I did successfully (although my brain was fried by this point after 4 other interviews and I did mess up one thing that he caught and I fixed). This interview was a bit odd as he was very casual about it, while I was answering his questions he got up, walked to his kitchen and started snacking. I had to repeat myself at times because he was distracted and this continued through most of the interview. Still a good interview overall and he was friendly. About 5 days later they reached out to me without an offer. I asked if they could provide any feedback and they said it was against their policy. All in all this was an exhausting and grueling process, with 7 interviews total which required me taking 2 days of PTO spread over multiple days. While I understood their decision, I was disappointed that they couldn't even provide any feedback given the amount of time and effort they require candidates to give.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Design an LRU cache that will eject elements based on when they were accessed.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Leetcode 1186: "Maximum Subarray Sum with One Deletion"
      Answer question

      Other Principal Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Oracle

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 24, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Oracle (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      Fairly easy tech screen. Loop was a bit of a mess. Coding portions required AI which was not mentioned ahead of time. One of the interviewers told me to find bugs in some code using AI, but accidentally pasted the solution instead of the buggy code which led to issues.

      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 11, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Nashville, TN
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Oracle (Nashville, TN)

      Interview

      Standard coding screen followed by loop rounds. Loop rounds - 1. System design - focused on the infra aspect more 2. Behavioral - turned into technical quickly and did some white boarding to explain how I cracked a problem. 3. Bartender - as they are all from platform team, most of their questions were targeted for infra position and that confused me. Bias for action seemed very important for them than any other principle. Coding - another leetcode medium and was easy to solve.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      System design - Youtube using barebones infra instead of ootb services
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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Mar 3, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Oracle

      Interview

      The interviews were mostly medium level leetcode questions. Takes a lot longer than you would expect. About 3 months from beginning to end. The offer stage and background stage take the longest

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Perform a leetcode medium question in 30 mins
      Answer question

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      • Principal Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Oracle with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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