Oracle·Software Engineer

Oracle Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Seattle, WAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I thought my technical screen would be straightforward and it was actually fairly easy.

The trouble started when I reached the loop—everything felt a bit messy, and I wasn’t prepared for how the coding tasks were handled.

In the loop’s coding portions, I was unexpectedly told to use AI while debugging code. It wasn’t mentioned clearly ahead of time, and the situation went sideways when one interviewer accidentally pasted the solution rather than the buggy code, which caused confusion for me and threw off the flow of the task.

Because of that, the overall difficulty felt difficult for me even though the early tech screen didn’t. I didn’t get an offer, and the main thing I

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