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Oracle Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a backend + data role and started with a screening round focused on a very data-heavy question.

The setting was all about URL access logs at a large scale, and I was asked to compute the top K URLs overall as well as the top K URLs accessed within the last 24 hours. I had to think through how to handle a huge volume of data, not just solve a small toy problem.

The round felt practical and oriented around real-world data access patterns, and it forced me to reason about the right approach for aggregating and filtering efficiently. Overall, the process didn’t feel overly theoretical, and even though the question was challenging because of the scale, it also made it clear what kind of

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