Oracle Software Engineer interview experience

The first parts were coding rounds where I had to implement an LRU cache and then solve another DSA-style problem about course prerequisites ordering—something that pushed me to structure my thinking and not just crank out code.

The later technical round felt more intense and very “algorithmic,” focusing on maximizing container area trapped between vertical lines. I remember the pressure of getting the reasoning right while the clock was running, but what helped was that I’d recently worked through a very similar architecture/design discussion elsewhere, so some of the framing felt familiar