**Background**: B.E. in IT\n**Work Experience**: 5.5 years in a product based MNC\n**Position**: IC3 OCI\n**Team** : Filesystems\n**Location**: Bangalore, India\n**Interview Period**: Dec 2020\n**Total rounds**: 1 Prelim + 3 Tech Rounds + 1 Bar Tender + 1 Managerial\n\nI enjoyed interviewing at OCI. The interview process was seamless, and the recruiters and interviewers were awesome. This has been the best interviewing experience in my career. \n\nInterview Process:\n\n**Round 0:** Prelim round (1 hour)\n- This round was taken by a senior developer on coderpad. The interviewer was very friendly. This round was a check that I knew how to write code.\n- Started with array linear search, then to binary search, and then to finding lower bound in a sorted array. \n\tThis round went very well.\n\nAfter this round, the HR scheduled 5 more rounds to be completed in three days.\n\n**Round 1:** Problem Solving (1 hour)\n- Project discussions - 10 min.\n- One problem solving: https://leetcode.com/problems/task-scheduler/\n\n\tThis round did not go very well. I struggled to come up with the most optimum solution. Could not code it fully.\n\n**Round 2:** Bartender (1 hour)\n- This was with someone (I believe she was a project manager for some team in the US) outside the team I would be joining. This was not a coding/design round. This was a behavioral round. We discussed Oracle\'s LPs, my project, my leadership skills, cracked jokes. This went well.\n\n**Round 3:** Design Round HLD (1 hour)\n- This was taken by a very senior developer in the US. He was very cool and we began with the discussion of my current project. \n- The design question was similar to designing a dropbox where I have to transmit large amounts of data reliably and efficiently over a network.\n- The interviewer was very friendly and gave me a lot of hints. \n\n\tI felt I could have done better in this round.\n\n**Round 4:** Managerial (1 hour)\n- Project and LP discussions - 1 hour.\n- He tested my leadership skills in many scenarios. We went in-depth about my current project and he asked me a lot of challenging questions about how I could improve my project.\n\tThis round went well.\n\n**Round 5:** Problem solving (1 hour)\n- This was taken by a developer based in the US.\n- The problem was simple. https://leetcode.com/problems/search-in-rotated-sorted-array/\n- I had to cover all the test cases and code them fully. Was able to do it.\n\nI received the offer after few days. Out of 6 rounds, the only one did not go well. This is what I liked most about OCI. They don\'t judge you based on the outcome of just one interview, which is the case with many other companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman, etc. \nIn short, **they interviewed to select me, and not reject me.**\n\nSadly, I did not join OCI since I had a competing offer from Amazon. \nAlso, OCI is new and has a different work culture than the rest of Oracle. It has also started to compete with big companies in terms of pay. So, if you get an offer from OCI, please don\'t hesitate to join.\n\nPlease let me know if you need more info. Posts like this have inspired me a lot. I bet it will be the same for you.\n\nCompensation details : [**LINK**](https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1146517/oci-ic3-bangalore-location/899808)

Background: B.E. in IT\nWork Experience: 5.5 years in a product based MNC\nPosition: IC3 OCI\nTeam : Filesystems\nLocation: Bangalore, India\nInterview Period: 