Oracle Financial Services Group (OFSS) — Associate Consultant (Freshers, On-Campus) Round 1: Online Assessment Consisted of aptitude questions followed by two coding problems testing standard problem-solving ability. Round 2: Technical Interview (40 minutes) Opened with a deep dive into my major project — the interviewer asked what I built, the problem it solved, and why I chose this specific project, evaluating both technical depth and decision-making rationale. This was followed by stack-specific questions: React: core concepts relevant to my project implementation Spring Boot: controllers and their role in the MVC flow, dependency injection and its use cases Core Java: threading concepts, exception handling DBMS: one easy-level SQL query DSA: a problem requiring frequency count of elements and iterating over a HashMap to print results Round 3: Technical/Managerial Interview (30 minutes) — with a Director-level interviewer Focused entirely on system design and architecture maturity. The interviewer probed the architecture of my major project and asked how I would improve its latency, pushing for concrete optimization strategies. The discussion went well and the interviewer responded positively to my answers. Round 4: HR Interview (10–15 minutes) Standard behavioral and logistics round: Willingness to relocate outside Mumbai Stress management approach Plans for higher studies (Master's)

The interview was pretty easy. They asked basic to medium LeetCode problems, and a lot of SQL/DBMS questions like joins, indexing, and query optimization. The main focus was on SQL and explaining projects from your resume. They also asked AI related topics like LLMs and RAG how they work, use cases, and differences between them.