Oracle Software Engineer Interview Experience — Phone Screen Plus Four Rounds Ending in a Bar Raiser

Oracle·Software Engineer·Aug 2026
OnsiteTechnical Screenmedium

Phone Interview / Technical Screening

  1. A detailed discussion of a project I had done before
  2. DSA: Check cycle in directed graph
  3. Basic System Design questions

Technical Interview 1

  1. Discussion of my current project
  2. DSA: Meeting Rooms II
  3. OOPs: Design LRU cache

HLD

  1. Discussion of my current project
  2. HLD: a domain-specific system design tied to what the interviewer's team currently works on
  3. DSA: Time Based Key-Value Store

Hiring Manager Round

  1. A deep discussion of my current project's architecture, where I had to draw the complete system architecture diagram
  2. Behavioral questions, focused on real examples of leadership and ownership
  3. Discussion of the business impact of my past projects

Bar Raiser Round

  1. HLD: URL Shortener
  2. A deep discussion of the architectural decisions in my current project and my past projects
  3. Behavioral questions

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Interview at a glance

Company
Oracle
Role
Software Engineer
Rounds
Technical Screen → Onsite
Difficulty
medium
Interview date
Aug 2026
Questions from this interview
7 questions

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