Oracle·Software Engineer

Oracle Software Engineer interview experience

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ChennaiPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with the usual application and recruiter review through the Oracle careers portal or via referral.

Once I was shortlisted, I had a recruiter/HR call that focused on my current role and experience, my notice period, salary expectations, why Oracle, and general communication. That portion felt pretty standard and straightforward.

After that came a technical round where we covered core Java and backend topics—OOP concepts, collections, multithreading, exception handling, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and even basic SQL. The coding questions leaned into arrays/strings and hashmap-style problems, along with linked list basics and some simple algorithms. Then I moved to a second technical round that

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