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Oracle Health | SDE2 | Feb 2025 | Possible Rejection

Pre-Screen

Questions:

  1. Given an array, build a BST which has minimal height.
  2. Follow-up: how to verify if the above generated tree is valid?
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Loop

Round 1 (with SDE2 - 45 mins) Questions:

  1. Evaluate a postfix expression, given a string array with operands & operators.
    • Example: input: ["23","2","+"], ans=25.

Behavioral: big obstacle.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2 (with SDE2 - 45 mins) Questions:

  1. Generate permutations of a given string.

Behavioral: prioritized customer needs.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3 (with senior manager, similar to bar raiser - 45 mins) Questions:

  1. Reason for migrating from RabbitMQ to Kafka.
  2. Advantages of Kafka over RabbitMQ.
  3. Sorting algorithms & their time complexities, what is big O.

Behavioral:

  1. Above & beyond.
  2. Prioritized customer needs over your team needs.
  3. One project I'm proud of.
  4. Reduced scope of an epic.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 4 (Manager of the hiring team - 45 mins) Questions: System Design - Similar to Inventory Management.

Behavioral:

  1. Any procedure or process that you've improved in your team.
  2. Foreseen a bug & fixed it.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


My Thoughts:

TAKE BEHAVIORAL ROUNDS VERY SERIOUSLY - ESPECIALLY ROUNDS WITH SENIOR MANAGERS