Oracle Interview Experiences & Questions
10 real Oracle interviews shared by candidates: every round, the questions they were asked, how they answered, and whether they got the offer. Latest: Sep 2026.
What to expect at Oracle
Based on 10 real interviews
By role
The Oracle interview process
Most common round types: Behavioral (5), Technical (4), System Design (3), People Management (3), Coding (2), Cross-Functional (1).
Real Oracle interview questions
- Design a file system where we can add a directory and erase a directory and find the number of directories under one directory.
- Tell me about a time you led a cross-functional team.
- Hashmap based question where I was asked to count the frequency of words in a list
- How have you managed risk in a project?
- Tell me about your hardest project.
- Walk me through cloud infra design
- Questions around my experience, visa status and when I’d be ready to interview.
- Tell me about a time you had a deadline.
- Behavioral round similar to Amazon’s leadership principles
- Tell me about the most challenging situation you faced in your career and how you handled it.
- Metrics monitoring interface
- Tell me about your past projects.
- why oracle and why this role?
- Leetcode medium
- People management
- Tell me about a time you failed.
- What are you most proud of in your career?
- System Design Round
- similar to combination sum 2
- What are your career goals?
- Vertical Traversal of a Binary Tree
- similar to jump game 2
- Why do you want to switch jobs now?
- Time taken for a ball to reach the ground from Nth floor building
- Why are you interested in this role at Oracle?
- How do you earn the trust of your team members?
- Tell me about yourself.
- How do you handle missing values in a dataframe?
- What is the difference between permutations and combinations?
- What is the project you are most proud of?
- Given an integer array nums, return the maximum result of nums[i] XOR nums[j], where 0 <= i <= j < n.
- Fibonacci Numbers
- leetcode question dp
- remove extra spaces between words in the sentence leetcode
- check if a word exists in a crossword
- implement dictionary
- Implement Pascal's Triangle.
- Calculus Questions
- Implement BFS traversal.
- Behavioural Questions
All 10 Oracle interview experiences
“Both rounds went well. I highly recommend reviewing previously asked questions for the company you are interviewing with. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could solve both problems easily,…”
“Hackerrank was supposed to run but the code that was already there was failing. I was able to code the whole logic and tell the time complexity and space complexity , but the code was not able to…”
“Pretty standard interview, technical part was more a talk through concepts than actual coding or system design. Discussed approach and trade offs. Behavioral bit talked about hardest project.…”
“Overall, this process was a breath of fresh air in that the coding portion was mostly leetcode easy - medium. The behavioral rounds were really in depth. Oracle seems to want people who exhibit…”
“It was a great experience overall. Everyone I met during the process was really kind and invested in the recruiting process. Recruiters were also generally responsive but sometimes it took a couple…”
“The Oracle interview process consisted of a recruiter screening, two technical rounds, a system design discussion, and a managerial round. The technical interviews focused on Java, data structures,…”
“The interview went very well, the interviewers were very nice. They don't ask questions out of the scope, they were very helpful and supportive. The communication was key in taking the interview,…”
“oVERALL Interview process was easy. You need to have a well-rounded knowledge of DSA, OOPS, DBMS, and some puzzles.”
“One of the manager took the system design and the rtecuiter was not comminicated thos before. each round 1hr, 40 min spent on system design”
“Everything went well. What didn't go well was that I had a location preference, and the interview did not like it.”
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds are in the Oracle interview?
Candidates report a typical 3 rounds, usually including a recruiter screen, online assessment, phone screen, technical round.
How hard is the Oracle interview?
Candidates rate it 2.8/5 on average (medium), across 10 interviews.
How long does the Oracle hiring process take?
About 2 weeks from first contact to decision, based on reported timelines.
What percentage of Oracle candidates get an offer?
100% of candidates with a final result got an offer (7 of 7).
What does the Oracle interview focus on?
The most common round types are Behavioral, Technical, System Design, People Management.