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Senior Hardware Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

November 1, 2011
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Went to an Oracle Job Fair and was asked to come for an onsite interview.

Topics covered:

  • Computer Architecture
  • Logic Design

Lot of cache-related questions, such as SMC, CMC, Parallel Comp Arch, directory-based protocols, consistency, and coherency.

Questions

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.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Oracle Senior Hardware Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.

Success Rate

50%
Pass Rate

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.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral50%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Oracle's Senior Hardware Engineer interview process in Santa Clara, California.

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