Project Intern(Internship) at Oracle

How it went

What they would tell you

How to prepare

Round by round

1. 1

   Online Assessment90 min

   The first round was an online assessment with two DSA-based questions, both of medium difficulty.The focus was on testing our core problem-solving and coding skills.

   • Number of islands
   • Delete a node in BST
2. 2

   Technical Interview 1 (Resume + DevOps + Coding)60 min

   The interview began with a quick introduction and a few resume-based questions. Since one of my internships had DevOps exposure, the interviewer, who was from Oracle’s DevOps team, steered the discussion heavily in that direction. We talked about CI/CD pipelines, containerization basics, and tools like Jenkins and Docker. Then we moved to the coding section. The round ended with an informal chat about the future of DevOps, cloud-native development, and automation trends. It was a balanced round and went well overall.

   • Delete a node in BST
   • Basic sorting-based problem
3. 3

   Technical Interview 2 (Projects + Theoretical Concepts)60 min

   The interviewer started by going through my resume and asked me to explain my AWS-based projects in detail. We discussed the services I used like EC2, S3, and Lambda, along with the overall architecture and the decisions I made during the project. After that, the interviewer moved to some theory questions, like:

   • What is multithreading and how would you use it in a web server?
   • What’s the difference between threads and processes?
   • What is thread safety and how can you avoid race conditions?
4. 4

   Director Round (Tech Strategy + Culture Fit)60 min

   This round started with a summary of my performance in previous rounds. The Director had already reviewed the feedback and wanted to dive deeper into my architectural thinking. Topics discussed:

   • Monolith vs. Microservices
   • A few scenario-based questions, like:
   • “If you were given an application with scaling issues, how would you debug and redesign it?”
   • Final 5–10 mins were spent on general behavioral questions: Why Oracle? What kind of work excites you? How do you work in teams and handle disagreements?

What came up