Oracle Software Engineer Interview Questions

254+ Oracle Software Engineer interview questions drawn from real candidate reports. Sources include 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode. Questions span every stage of the Oracle Software Engineer loop: OA, phone screen, system design, behavioral, and onsite coding.

What to Expect in the Oracle Software Engineer Interview

The Oracle Software Engineer interview process typically runs 4 to 6 rounds depending on seniority level. Based on candidate reports in the LeakCode database, the loop usually includes a resume review, an online assessment or coding phone screen, one or more technical rounds, a system design round (for senior and above), and a behavioral or values round.

Difficulty skews toward medium and hard LeetCode-style problems in the coding rounds. System design questions test breadth (component selection, scaling, trade-off reasoning) more than deep implementation. Behavioral questions are tied to the company's stated values and principles.

Oracle Software Engineer Questions (Sample)

Oracle OCI SMTS Interview Experience with 5 YOE System Design and Coding

system design 2026 1p3a

YOE: 5 Applied on job portal and recruiter reached out to me. Screening round: - Discussion on the current project (40 mins) - Problem solving : https://leetcode.com/problems/avoid-flood-in-the-city/d

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Oracle OCI IC3 Software Engineer Interview Experience Networking Team

easy 2026 1p3a

Recently I got chance to interview with OCI Networking Team. **Round 1: Screening** Coding: Reverse a linked list (Write end-to-end code). Find the intersection point of two linked lists. Networking &

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Oracle Senior Software Engineer Technical Phone Interview Throttling Design

phone screen 2026 1p3a

I recently had a phone screen with Oracle for a Senior Software Engineer role and was asked the following question: "In a first-person shooter (FPS) game, players trigger actions like shooting, reload

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Long time running production services and maintenance

2026 reddit

we have many old services running in production for months or years with no new functional requirements. let's say there are 100 such services and now one oracle upgrade comes which while doing analys

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Oracle Fulltime SDE General Onsite Interview Overview

onsite hard 2025 1p3a

Round 1: 1 26# (2) 25# can be decoded as azzy Round 2: 1944, a little more difficult, find the number of people each person can see on their left and right sides Round 3: Bar raiser, regular bq Round

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Oracle Fulltime SDE Technical Phone Screen Interview Questions

phone screen 2025 1p3a

This post was last edited by Anonymous on 2025-10-02 13:28. Giving back to the community, I'd like to share the Oracle phone interview questions I was asked this week: The following content requires a

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Oracle OCI SMTS KMS Screening Interview Experience

2025 1p3a

**Candidate Profile & Context** * **Current Role:** SSE at Walmart (6 YOE). * **Target Role:** OCI KMS Team (Security Products Group, Tier-0 Service). * **Interview Round:** Screening (conducted by SM

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Oracle OCI SMTS Technical Phone Screen Workflow Team Interview Experience

phone screen hard 2025 1p3a

**Candidate Profile** * **Current Role:** SSE at Walmart * **Experience:** 6.3 Years * **Interview:** Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Workflow Team * **Round:** Screening (conducted by SMTS) **Beha

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Oracle OCI IC3 Pre-screening Interview Experience

2025 1p3a

I completed a pre-screening for OCI in mid-September. Although the portal status remains at "Interview and Selection," I have not yet received any further communication. **Problem Statement** The task

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Oracle SMTS Interview Experience for SDE 2 Level

behavioral easy 2025 1p3a

**Oracle SDE 2 Interview Experience** **Screening Round** * **Problem:** LeetCode Medium involving a priority queue. * **Topics:** Java and Spring Boot fundamentals. **Round 1: Technical** * **DSA:**

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Oracle USA Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) Interview Process

technical hard 2025 1p3a

**Role:** Principal MTS (PMTS) **Phone Screen (60 mins)** * **Behavioral:** Two questions. * **Coding:** Standard Binary Tree problem (completed in 5 minutes). * **System Design:** Metrics and Logging

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Oracle IC-2 Backend Engineer Interview Experience (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka)

medium 2025 1p3a

The interview process for the Oracle IC-2 Backend Engineer role involved a comprehensive technical round focusing on project architecture, Kafka, system design, and algorithms. **Project Deep Dive** T

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Oracle PMTS 2025 Screening Interview: BST & Parking System LLD

system design 2025 1p3a

Post introduction, Interviewer asked 2 behavioural questions. Next, was **Kth Largest element in BST**. (similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-smallest-element-in-a-bst/description/) Was able t

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Oracle IC4 Technical Interview System Design and Coding Experience

system design 2025 1p3a

Just bombed the technical screen so I'll share my experience. More system design heavy than DSA/Leetcode. Started off with some Star questions, describe a time you made a mistake and how you fixed it,

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Oracle IC4 Onsite Interview Experience and HR Ghosting

onsite 2025 1p3a

I had recently interviewed with Oracle for the position of IC4 at Oracle Health. - **Screening Round (30th Oct)** 1. What is OOPs? 2. Why is string immutable? 3. Serialization / Transient 4. Synchroni

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Difficulty Breakdown

64

easy

56

medium

30

hard

14

0

Based on 254 questions with difficulty labels from candidate reports.

Interview Rounds

Here is how the Oracle Software Engineer questions in the LeakCode database break down by interview round, based on what candidates reported:

Round Questions in Database
coding 111
phone screen 50
oa 37
recruiter 21
system design 11
technical 4

Most Common Topics

arrays (47) system design (43) graph (17) strings (15) hash table (14) linked list (11) heap (10) stack (9)

Question Recency

5

2026

38

2025

42

2024

14

2023

Question counts by interview year, based on candidate-reported dates.

How to Prepare for the Oracle Software Engineer Interview

Use the LeakCode question database as your primary research tool. Filter by role (Software Engineer), then by round type to focus your prep on the specific stages in your upcoming loop. Sort by recency to see what 2026 candidates actually faced.

  • Start with questions from the last 12 months. Interview processes change and recent data is the strongest signal.
  • Cross-reference questions that appear in multiple sources (1p3a, Blind, Glassdoor). Multi-source confirmation means a question has stronger recurrence probability.
  • For system design rounds: focus on the question patterns, not individual questions. The same design principles recur across many prompts.
  • For behavioral rounds: map your experiences to the company's stated values before the interview. Most behavioral questions at top companies are derivatives of a small set of core leadership competencies.

FAQ

How many Oracle Software Engineer questions are in the database?

254+ questions from verified candidate reports. The count grows as new reports are scraped daily from 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode.

Are these questions from real Oracle interviews?

Yes. All questions are sourced from actual candidate interview reports, not generated by AI. Each entry links back to its source URL where available, and questions are tagged with the year and round reported by the candidate.

How current is this data?

LeakCode updates daily. The database is filtered to exclude duplicate and low-quality entries. You can filter by interview year to focus on recent cycles.

Does LeakCode cover Oracle OA questions specifically?

Yes. The database includes online assessment questions tagged with round type. See the Oracle OA page for a dedicated view.

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