Oracle Software Engineer interview experience

The first round started with a DSA problem—things like finding the longest continuous subarray under an absolute-difference constraint, or a more scenario-based question framed around infection spreading across houses. I also had to work through a variation-heavy prompt where the interviewer expected me to explain the approach and then reason about the complexity.

A later technical round mixed in classic coding such as Next Permutation. I had to talk through how I’d solve it, implement the solution during the session, and then estimate time and space. After that, I hit a system design