Anybody who's made this move before, or observed it, what are the differences I can expect between the two companies? I transferred into an org that is likely to have Alexa-scale layoffs in Q1, as soon as Jan, and I'm in consideration for some roles at OCI. Been with Amazon 3 years and I remember 3 years ago, it was rare anybody wanted to go to OCI from here. Now, it might be a viable option. Can anyone speak to the culture, the system, considerations? Is it harder to grow your career at one or the other? Will one lowball in terms of pay? Does PIP or stack rank exist at Oracle? #aws #amazon #oci #oracle #layoffs
One of my buddy did it, and his wlb is a lot better and pay although lower is not that far off.
Nice. Is your buddy remote or on-site?
I think he is hybrid
You will be fine. One of the potential guy who could have devlisted left to OCI a couple of years ago and still doing well there.
Good to know there’s a chance for stable future and growth there. So it’s not like a place for Amazon rejects and has-beens.
I don’t think so. It looks like Amazon is your first job. Trust me there are very few companies like Amazon who dev list for no reason and PIP.
Not sure if hiring freeze lifted? Also the time to get written offer was in months after verbal offer.
>>Been with Amazon 3 years and I remember 3 years ago, it was rare anybody wanted to go to OCI from here. Now, it might be a viable option. WHAT! I was in Oracle for 17 years. OCI is built by Amazon devlisted/rejects starting from 2015
So in terms of reputation, is it not worthwhile to consider?
Hey OP, I was just responding to a point that stood out. I am an old SWE so I have biases and baggage. If you are a SWE, things should be fine. We old timers used to believe that OCI is a non serious effort. And finally Oracle will just offer their DB and ERP on another cloud. And behold, oracle announced a partnership with azure this year. Just ranting!
OP, go where you'll be challenged to grow.
PIP exists but not as stringent as amazon. It’s only if you are not performing on normal standard at your level. Wlb is better if you don’t go to tier 0 service. System depends on the team. Some old teams have very less documentation and badly written services which makes lot of operations issue. But I have seen new teams with proper documentation and clean codebase, so you can aim for them. Culture wise, not as good as Microsoft but better than Amazon.
No don’t go it’s hell
Isn't everyone in OCI from AWS? But waay better
Do like Clay did. L6 AWS to oracle EVP in 5 years.
Which org are you at Amazon ?
Physical stores =(
Try changing orgs internally ?