Went to an Oracle Job Fair and was asked to come for an onsite interview.
Topics covered:
Lot of cache-related questions, such as SMC, CMC, Parallel Comp Arch, directory-based protocols, consistency, and coherency.
Parallel Computer Architecture: Gave the MP structure and then asked, "How would you maintain coherency?"
Cache-related puzzle: Create a memory access trace that leads to a certain percentage of misses on particular cache dimensions.
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Oracle Senior Hardware Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.
Oracle's interview process for their Senior Hardware Engineer roles in Santa Clara, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Oracle's Senior Hardware Engineer interview process in Santa Clara, California.