Oracle interview notes, page 7 of 9

“Took me a second to figure out what angle they actually wanted here.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Oracle, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just sort everything globally and walk through it, which would've been a mess.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I froze for a second choosing which project to talk about, which probably looked bad.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew a linked list was involved pretty early but kept second-guessing myself on how to handle the duplicates cleanly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I got the base cases fast enough: if after one cycle the robot is back at origin, it loops forever, bounded.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The representation choice was actually where I spent most of my time.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went with the greedy approach, tracking the farthest reachable index as I walked through the array.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had some thoughts ready but the conversation went broader than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The two-digit '#' suffix encoding is what trips you up if you're not careful.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The recursive solution isn't hard to sketch out but I fumbled a bit explaining the complexity.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Oracle, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.