1p3a Question · Dec 2025

Oracle IC4 Technical Interview System Design and Coding Experience

SWE System Design Mid

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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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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, technologies you use. Highlight frameworks. Describe a time where you were working on something you didnt understand anything, how did you overcome. Hacker rank was basically to design a server scheduler. Your given a server and a end time for a task,

return something to say you can or can't run job. 2nd question piggyback and sets it up to have multiple servers with dependencies aka the course scheduler problem from leetcode. Directed graph DFS.

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This is a reported interview question from a oracle interview for a swe role (mid level) during the system design round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Graph, System Design, Behavioral .