What does working at Oracle look like?
I keep hearing about this evil corp doing bad things. But engineering is engineering, right? Too bad they bought Sun. Sun should have sold out to Google.
The cloud org (OCI) and core DB orgs are pretty decent. Rest of the company is super old and archaic. Ancient tech stacks, tons of bureaucracy, politics, and ppl just looking to coast. Comp is pretty low unless you’re in one of those 2 orgs.
Can confirm
Not necessarily true. Netsuite-GBU is a good place to be.
OCI is pretty good. Similar to AWS in many respects (not surprising given most of the people who built OCI were ex-AWS). WLB and team is all hit or miss, again like AWS. DB org is okay too from what I’ve heard. Rest of Oracle is pretty archaic and lots of legacy tech. I’ve heard some legacy orgs have super chill WLB though
Like which ones 🤣
It is very much like working for any other big tech company
No complaints. I’m very happy. Tooling is a nightmare because Oracle refuses to use anything they haven’t built themselves. But otherwise, it’s a good gig with a good culture.
It's a huge corp with many orgs, it really depends a lot on org/team/manager. What big evil things is Oracle doing? (that other big tech aren't)
Was the Google of 1990-2000s. That’s before outsourcing to Reliance & Tata in Bangalore came
No. It was still a large, more button down company than others in Silicon Valley even then. It was a much better brand than now, but it wasn't known for their innovation or being an engineer company like a Sun Microsystems, Yahoo. Heck, even Cisco.
And that’s why it’s now ran by outsource company