1. Technical Interview1
2. Technical Interview 2
Although I used to value Oracle company a lot in the past, but my interview experience changed my mindset.
Recruiter was friendly in the first call. He arranged an interview.
On the first interview, interviewer did not consider turning his camera on, or giving an introduction about himself. That was the first negative point. I expect my future colleagues to be human first and then a technologist. Anyway.
The interview went on for 2 hours not because I did not have the answers, but because he had a list of a lot of questions. I felt that was okay, as I was also enjoying answering the questions and questions were pretty easy as well.
I got a call from the recruiter afterwards.
As I expected it was for scheduling the second round . However, recruiter thought of sharing the feedback as well which I really appreciate. But one should only include a step in the process if they know how to do it well. Here comes the second negative point.
Recruiter had no idea how to effectively give the feedback. Instead of also giving me insights about what I did well as well as what did not go well, he just chose to criticize me, trying to deter my confidence and telling me this is bad, this is so so. These were his exact words.
I feel sorry for the candidates who lack confidence and prepare so hard to get into companies. as recruiter like this does a great work at shattering people's confidence and self esteem. Fortunately I had enough self confidence, however I felt really bad.
Second interview. Interviewer asked one Leetcode hard question. I was able to answer it. Then he proceeded to my resume asking me Kubernetes and Docker, Java.
I answered all of them and the interviewer seemed really impressed in the end.
That was it. I never heard from them again.