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      Principal Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 23, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Oracle

      Interview

      Manager round with hypothetically scenarios for system design. Then two coding rounds with different people. Then one round with the VP of the business unit. Process took about 3 weeks.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Coding problem to use Java threads and semaphores to synchronize processes.
      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
      Answer question

      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

      Oracle interviews FAQs

      • 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.
      • Candidates applying for Principal Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 43 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Oracle overall takes an average of 33 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer according to 43 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  23%

        One on one interview:  20%

        Skills test:  14%

        Presentation:  9%

        Group panel interview:  9%

        Background check:  9%

        Personality test:  6%

        IQ intelligence test:  5%

        Drug test:  3%

        Other:  2%

      • Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -

        1. Software Engineer(1953) ;
        2. Senior Software Engineer(1366) ;
        3. Associate Consultant(1079) ;
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        5. Account Executive(1035) ;
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