She asked how much my salary claim was (70k - normal for a company like this), to which she replied with a notch in complaint.
She also mentioned that the job was a contractor job, which doesn't make much sense unless they expect the job to be temporary (which I wouldn't be surprised about). However, she insisted that the job was for an open-ended period.
She never clarified exactly what the work is. She only said that it was a development from scratch.
I told her that my company was going through a bad time and she anxiously asked if they had closed or laid off people (as if that was an opportunity for her to get people at a low cost).
The recruiter was very insistent about my nationality to the point of being offensive. She asked if I have a visa, I told her I had nationality and then she asked if the nationality was "temporary". Having said that, she insisted that I could only do the job in Spain without me saying anything against it.
She ended the interview abruptly after that.
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
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Zürich) in Jun 2025
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe 3 different optimisations applied to LLM inference.
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One on one interview: 24%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 15%
Background check: 15%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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