I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Oracle (Reston, VA) in Oct 2009
Interview
This interview was for a Federal Sales Role.
It started with the usual phone interview. It went okay, but it wasn't the best experience I've had.
I then was scheduled along with 7 others to show up as a group. We were given a great, positive overview of the Oracle by a current person in the role we were interviewing for. That was very cool. Also a couple of the executuves were there as well and gave a couple of short, but good speeches.
We then were all split up and went to interview with 3 different hiring managers. The interviewers themselves were cordial, but very sterile, with the exception of one.
I hate to say this, but when our group was assembled in a conference room prior to the individual interviews, one of the female interviewers came in and said "Wow, we aren't going to win any EEOC awards today are we?" I was totally shocked. Yes, as it happened we were all white males. Of course, no one remarked about this comment, but I am sure none felt very good about it. Out of the 3 interviewers there was a white female, a black female, and a black male. I only say this in lieu of the comment the Oracle representative made to us all.
Again, the interviewers were very polite and respectful, but to my knowledge none of the group that day was hired.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Oracle (Reston, VA) in Jan 2007
Interview
The hiring process was ok everyone was very pleasant, but the red tape that company has is ridiculous. I interviewed from my first contact with the recruiter. Then two weeks later the three phone interviews I had. Then I was flown in town month after that and was there for only two hours then flew right back.. They made me an offer, before they even had approval to hire anyone. That process for approval took over a month.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were really not that difficult. If you are familiar and are in the industry you will be fine. If you are trying to get into the industry know their products, know their competitors.