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OCI IC3 Interview Experience | Prague

Location
Prague
Posted
9 Mar 2026
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Summary

I experienced a comprehensive multi-round interview process for an IC3 role at Oracle in Prague, covering DSA, behavioral questions, Java-specific design, and system design, with multiple specific problems discussed.

How it went

Round 1 : Project Discussion, DSA round

  • DSA : From a list, find first missing positive integer Leetcode
  • Given two very large files (>1GB) containing integers, cant be stored in-memory, find the intersection set of the two files. The numbers are sorted.

Loop 1-4

  1. Behavioral
    • Deep dive on projects , every single detail
    • Tell me a time when you had conflict
    • How did you make others welcome in a team?
    • How did you deal with someone not responding to the problems you are working e.g. Project managers not clarifying on tasks specification
  2. Behavioral + DSA
    • Behavioral - Tell me a mistake that you made and what did you learn?
    • Did you ever go out of the way without following the protocol to design your solution.
    • DSA - Merge in between linked list Leetcode
  3. Java Based Quetion + Behavioral
    • Tell me about a situation when the problem was untestable? What did you do for testing?
    • Java question on design a BattlePlayer game with each player having cards of 3 types and 10 levels. Checking knowledge of interface, abstraction, oops principle.
  4. Behavioral + System Design
    1. How do you mange risk involved?
    2. How did you deal with criticism?
    3. How did you manage conflict with a team member?
    4. System Design - Dropbox

Question that I asked -

  1. What are some of the challenges that your team is facing? Any one scenario.
  2. A: No challenges. It's just work thats need to be done.

Questions asked (14)

  1. 01

    Find First Missing Positive Integer

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Hard

    From a list, find first missing positive integer

    Open the problem
  2. 02

    Intersection of Two Large Sorted Files

    Data Structures & Algorithms

    Given two very large files (>1GB) containing integers, cant be stored in-memory, find the intersection set of the two files. The numbers are sorted.

  3. 03

    Tell me about a conflict you had

    Behavioral

    Tell me a time when you had conflict

  4. 04

    Making Others Welcome in a Team

    Behavioral

    How did you make others welcome in a team?

  5. 05

    Dealing with Unresponsive Project Managers

    Behavioral

    How did you deal with someone not responding to the problems you are working e.g. Project managers not clarifying on tasks specification

  6. 06

    Describe a Mistake and Learning

    Behavioral

    Tell me a mistake that you made and what did you learn?

  7. 07

    Deviating from Protocol

    Behavioral

    Did you ever go out of the way without following the protocol to design your solution.

  8. 08

    Merge In Between Linked Lists

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

    Merge in between linked list

    Open the problem
  9. 09

    Untestable Problems and Testing Strategies

    Behavioral

    Tell me about a situation when the problem was untestable? What did you do for testing?

  10. 10

    Design a BattlePlayer Game

    System Design

    Java question on design a BattlePlayer game with each player having cards of 3 types and 10 levels. Checking knowledge of interface, abstraction, oops principle.

  11. 11

    Managing Risk

    Behavioral

    How do you mange risk involved?

  12. 12

    Dealing with Criticism

    Behavioral

    How did you deal with criticism?

  13. 13

    Managing Conflict with a Team Member

    Behavioral

    How did you manage conflict with a team member?

  14. 14

    Design Dropbox

    System Design · Hard

    System Design - Dropbox

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