Oracle(current company) or GE
Anyone have an experience working at GE and can share their input. GE: TC - 170k (Salary + annual bonus) Oracle: TC - 170k (Salary + RSU) Oracle TC obviously fluctuates with the price of the stock and right now she ain’t too good. #oracle #ge
GE!
Oracle is dying faster than GE
I heard there will be big layoffs in Oracle soon. They already had many few months ago.
What's the position in GE?
some senior software engineer role but it sounds like a lot of managing of offshore consultants in india
Level at Oracle?
ic3
GE is not a software company, they do not know how to write software. Worked there. Work/life balance was good and relaxed. But career wise it was a waste of time.
Yeah I don’t mind that as much. I don’t think tech companies are all that good at writing software either. I have friends in Microsoft who complain about this piss poor quality of code written their and I can also so it’s pretty rough here as well. I think that quality code is very team dependent. I just don’t want to leave one frying pan to go to another in terms of layoffs
Oh, that is not about the code quality, it is about the overall approach. The code quality was a kind of good, surprisingly. Thanks to a few senior engineers in the team. What was terrible is the management. Most managers I worked with had zero technical experience, their understanding of the development process was ridiculous. And not just management. We had an "architect" who came from GE Power and did not even understand how the whole system will work. We got a "data architect" for DB schema design, who worked her whole life as a real estate agent and took some SQL training before joining the company. Managers were changing at "5 managers per year" rate. Some developers were hired out of... well, I actually cannot think of any reasons why those were even hired. After one year in the company two of them were sent to some coding classes to teach them how to write code. Cause they really had no idea how to that, I'm not exaggerating. But that was GE Healthcare and that shit show was shut down in 3 years - GE sold the whole healthcare department to athenahealth. I hope other parts of GE are better.
The stock price not being too good right now is a good thing for you. It means you have more upside vs joining the company at a high point.
Sorry I phrased the title wrong. I’m currently at Oracle and joined a while back when the stock was higher, granted I am being awarded more stock now while it is at a lower price. Oracle is not performing well right now but I guess a lot of companies aren’t right now. I’m wondering if GE is a dying company or if it would be a safe jump.