I was interviewing with Oracle Labs Zurich.

I passed two rounds, and the interviewers seemed okay, though not without organizational hiccups. No wonder, as the interviewers, recruiter, and coordinator sit in three different countries.

After that, I tried to ping them about the status for about a month. (This was during corona time, and I was sick with it myself for two weeks during that month.) Eventually, they responded that I was qualified for the next round of selection (no such thing as a next round for anyone I know at my school who applied there) and that I would have to wait two months for an update. They referred to corona complications, except that at least two of my classmates got their offers just around the same day I got this response, and they started their interviewing process pretty much in parallel with me.

The next outright lie was when I asked what the start date of the internship was, and they said that July was absolutely off the table. Now I learn that some of my friends start in July.

Not to even mention that during the on-campus event, I emphasized multiple times that I didn't want to deal with machine learning and was interested in compilers. Yet, the first words from the recruiter were: "Alright, so you want to do an internship with an ML team... :))"

Overall, I still think they're doing a pretty good job with Graal VM, and there are some super-smart people who would be super cool to work with. But the recruitment process is unacceptable.

Write a hash table.

Parallel operations and their effect on cache.

Simple streaming algorithms:

• Sum in the window
• Min in the window