I interviewed at Oracle (Los Angeles, CA) in Apr 2010
Interview
got hired as an intern during the summer of my masters program. No technical questions asked. Was called straight away for onsite. 2 days later Hiring manager emailed back with giving me an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No technical questions asked. "Explain this academic project" type questions were asked. specific language skills were not tested.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Oracle (Reading, England) in Apr 2014
Interview
Telephone interview first, then if successful another two in person interviews.
Tell me what experience you have in shell programming, which operating systems are you familiar with, programming languages you know, do you know what is the recent biggest threat discovered on the Internet (wanted to hear about Heartbleed), recent projects you have done, interested in security and encryption, what are you most interested in developing(apps, OS, games)
There were three rounds of interview and they were mainly focusing on data structures and also on your code writing skills. They were not interested that if you know SQL or not. And the better pointers you have the better is your chance to get selected because we were sorted according to our pointers an were not considered at the last.