Principal Consultant applicants have rated the interview process at Oracle with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 77% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Consultant roles take an average of 57 days to get hired, when considering 26 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Oracle overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Oracle as a Principal Consultant according to 26 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 21%
Background check: 20%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 8%
Presentation: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Personality test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
Other: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3+ months. I interviewed at Oracle (Reston, VA) in Jan 2012
Interview
Phone screening and talking to 3 different people of different levels, one of them will be very technical and only ask technical questions. They will ask your experience on the field and that you provide a good description of your consulting background. They also ask technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about my skills in database, asked to provide a solution to a problem they have described.
2 rounds of technical - They will ask all the technical questions based on your resume. Quite difficult
1 Manager Round - They will ask technical questions and managerial questions
Interview mostly they will ask the basics but from each and every topic for Oracle DBA like configuration, architecture, RMAN, EXP/IMP, Performance Tuning, RAC, Golden Gate, Exadata and Cloud platform question etc.
There was 2 technical interview and one managerial round. L1 round was with some Java coding using stream and theoretical questions and L2 round was more about the scenario based questions