Oracle Engineering Group Qa Engineer Interview Questions
& Process

I applied online and got an interview the next week after initial calls with both the recruiter and the hiring manager. The phone screening covered mostly standard questions, plus some technical ones like writing a simple SQL query. The whole process was pretty good; folks were respectful and seemed genuinely interested in what I've done and what I could bring to the company.

I applied for the Quality Engineer position through the Oracle Careers website. Initially, a recruiter from Oracle contacted me, asking basic Unix questions like how to list files, change file modes, and check running processes before forwarding my application to the hiring manager. A couple of days later, I received an invitation for a 1-hour phone interview with the hiring manager. This interview covered my interest in the role, fundamental Unix commands, and testing fundamentals. She seemed satisfied and mentioned she would arrange an interview with one of the engineers. Two days after that, we scheduled a technical interview with an engineer. He inquired about testing methodologies, specifically black box and white box testing, and then presented a case study where I had to identify test cases, coming up with about ten. He seemed impressed and indicated a potential onsite interview. However, the next step was a take-home programming assignment. The hiring manager emailed me about sending the assignment when I was ready, expecting it back within 4 hours. I set a date, and she sent the assignment, which involved writing a C program for a command-line utility to copy files to a destination directory with specific error handling and directory creation logic. I hadn't used functions like fstat or mkdir before, so it took me longer than 4 hours. I submitted an initial version with basic features implemented and completed the rest a couple of hours later. Unfortunately, I didn't receive a callback, which I suspect was due to my code. I spent about 5-8 hours on this assignment, including setting up VMware and Ubuntu on my laptop. Despite enjoying the process and the people I interacted with, I did not receive an offer. I'm documenting this experience as I always check Glassdoor before interviews.

The interview process kicked off with a general interview, followed by interviews with the manager, then the senior manager. The final stage involved an interview with the director, leading into salary negotiation. This last round was conducted via a video conference call.