I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Oracle (Colorado Springs, CO) in Feb 2019
Interview
Initial HR screening, then group technical interview over conference call.
I called in five minutes ahead of time and waited fifteen minutes. None of them showed up. Set up a second attempt with the recruiter.
Again, I called in five minutes early. After ten minutes of dead air, I felt there might be a connection problem (Interview was scheduled five minutes ago by this point). I hung up and dialed again. This time a couple of the interviewers were on, discussing how I wasn’t. This is about eight minutes into when the interview should have started. More stragglers. No apologies.
They asked the generic “tell us about yourself” I asked what they would want to know. Manager then jumps in with questions about how I’ve used various technologies.
Technical person asks some basic questions on closures in JavaScript, I answer. She then asks “what are the advantages of jQuery” I mention chaining functions and DOM selection. She then responds. “Those aren’t the answers I was looking for ... the correct answer is cross browser programming.” She then asks if I’ve ever used Typescript (it’s not on my resume because I’ve only touched it twice) I mention that I’ve toyed with it. She then really interrogated me on it. I told her what I did with it - simple transpiling to ES5 - and she harps on how inappropriate that is for fifteen minutes.
After her rant, I ask “what are you really looking for?” And the answer was “we’re looking for someone who’s creative - who can solve creative problems.” I waited a few seconds hoping they’d ask an interview question based on that ... nothing. No “tell us if a difficult problem and how you faced it.” or “here’s a problem - how might this get solved?” No questions that related to what they claimed to be wanting.
It’s like a bad speed-date where a snob says he’s wanting someone with emotional integrity and humor, but never asks any of those questions and makes a quick decision based on your looks.
My advice is for Oracle to spend time with interviewers, teach them the skill, advise them to ask questions that line up with the company values (creative thinkers) or stop BS’ing themselves and admit they just want to hire academic code monkeys.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why would you use Typescript that way!? You make no sense!
Se divide en varias etapas, lo primero evalúan tu ingles, ya que es requisito para trabajar ahí, normalmente es solo una entrevista en ingles con preguntas sencillas, como cuál es tu actual trabajo, por qué quieres trabajar en Oracle, y normalmente es alguien de RH, después si pasas esa etapa viene la entrevista técnica en la que te preguntarán conceptos básicos, por ejemplo si es para java te preguntarán sobre herencia, polimorfismo, era entrevista puede ser en español o en ingles dependiendo si es alguien de aquí de México tu manager o si es del extranjero y posteriormente te pondrán problemas de algoritmos que tendrás que programar en el tiempo de la entrevista
1 technical phone screen covering basic networking and data structures, followed by a 4-round onsite loop focused heavily on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) scale challenges. The rounds were split between low-level system execution, multi-tenant cloud architecture, and standard relational/non-relational database trade-offs. The interviewers kept drilling into network virtualization, hypervisors, and storage layers.
To prep, I needed to brush up on high-throughput cloud networking patterns and storage engine internals. I utilized Apex Interviewer to simulate full cloud infrastructure design problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a highly secure, multi-tenant virtual cloud network block storage migration system that allows live volume transfers between physical data centers without dropping active I/O operations.
Mostly coding question focused, and some talking about personal experience and terms. Some technical design, you could have chosen any language to complete the coding questions. Questions were simple technical concepts that person came up with at the moment.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something like searching in logs using maps and filter/find data
