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Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bristol, United Kingdom

March 1, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Essentially a carbon copy of the Amazon interview, OCI started by ex-AWS staff. The process includes 5 interviews:

  • 2 coding interviews
  • 1 system design interview
  • 2 behavioral interviews

The first interview is with the "bartender," who is someone outside the team. The coding questions were standard LeetCode easy questions, and the system design questions were also quite simple. However, as with Amazon interviews, the marking tends to be weighted towards the behavioral questions to ensure alignment with the 9 OCI "values." Therefore, I think the best way to prepare is to concentrate on memorizing the 9 values, identify which value a question relates to, and then try to repeat those values in your answer.

Questions

How would you architect a system for a SaaS product with many customers?

Why do you want to join Oracle?

Write a class with two methods: one to add metrics and one to return the sum of all metrics added in the last 5 minutes.

Design a URL shortener service like TinyURL.

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