Senior Member of Technical Staff applicants have rated the interview process at Oracle with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Member of Technical Staff roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Oracle overall takes an average of 23 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Oracle as a Senior Member of Technical Staff according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Drug test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Presentation: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Redwood Shores, CA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Straight forward interview process, no delays. You can be hired in 3 weeks but might take longer if there is visa sponsorship required. I had a very positive experience.
Technical Prep: Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA)
Oracle commonly asks Easy to Medium-level questions on HackerRank, focusing on efficiency and code quality.
Key Topics: Arrays, Strings, HashMaps, Linked Lists, Binary Trees, and Graphs.
Common Problems: Inverting a binary tree, merging sorted arrays, and finding the first non-repeating character in a string.
Focus: Practice communicating your thought process out loud ("think out loud") and optimizing for both time and space complexity.
1st round elimination.
4 rounds of loop interview.
Loop rounds- 1 DSA Hard
HLD
LLD
Bar Raiser round.
Interview experience was average. First interviewer was not supportive in DSA. In spite of giving 3 solutions, he wanted to hear one that he had predetermined
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Zürich) in Jun 2025
Interview
Was for a position at one of their labs and took a bit under a month.
1. Screening call with HR with basic behavioural/experience question.
2. 2x technical interviews (LLMs, parallelism, databases, etc) with coding components.
3. Hiring manager interview (behavioural, technical).
Overall the interviewers were timely, pleasant and reasonable. Often they asked questions about many different areas and went more in depth based on my experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe 3 different optimisations applied to LLM inference.