I was contacted via LinkedIn and asked if I would like to interview with Oracle for a graduate position. I accepted the offer and had one phone interview with the company.

Firstly, they used a phone call instead of something like Skype or Zoom, and called from the UK (I was in Ireland). This meant I could barely hear the interviewer because of the bad phone line, which could have easily been avoided.

Secondly, the interviewer was a recruiter and asked lots of technical questions that seemed to be more "tech buzzwords" than actual questions. For example, I said I had worked on creating API endpoints in my previous work and was asked, "What companies' endpoints did you work with?" To which I kind of just had to reiterate that I was the one making the endpoints for the company I was working for.

The recruiter didn't seem to have read my CV, meaning a lot of questions were about very basic things that, at first, I thought were being clarified. Instead, it seemed to be the first time they had heard the answer. It was pointed out that this wasn't a "graduate program" but instead, I would keep the title 'graduate' for an indefinite period, which sounds like an awful system.

They did not come back to me after this screening, and I would recommend other graduates avoid them.

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