* Developers are on a five year laptop replacement cycle.
* You will take the corporate standard laptop and like it.
* You will take the corporate standard screen and like it.
* You will take the one corporate standard virtual machine you are allocated and like it.
* Everything moves slowly, even for a corporate bureaucracy.
* None of the above applies to Sales - they can have whatever they want whenever they want, including brand new MacBook Pros yearly. (That says a lot about priorities)
* Stack-ranking system that tries to force managers to give 1/3 of the team bad rankings every year. In theory the top 1/3 are supposed to get bonuses/options, but in practice managers just spread the pain around so even as a top-performer I got screwed.
* Pay used to be kinda average, but now that the wage fixing cartel was shut down and wages have risen it makes Oracle look hilariously low.
* Lots of mandates from on high about what technologies to use
* Above mentioned technologies are heavily designed by architecture astronauts; if it makes the install 8 GB and take 15 hours all the better to push customers to consulting services. Lots of XXXFactory classes and useless abstractions.
* Be forced to tell a customer you can't restore your copy of their database to test with because ProdDev IT won't give you NAS space to store it (not that it would be fast enough to be usable anyway)
* Everything interesting or good for customers will get massive pushback; the focus is on checkboxes that CTOs can understand
* Manager turf wars and pompous blowhards abound, all looking to carve out a nice little kingdom to lord over.
It's a place to go earn a basic salary until you retire. After the acquisition, everything got much worse.
If your company is acquired by Oracle, plan your exit strategy and stay just long enough to cash out whatever options you have.
If a company you rely on is acquired by Oracle, look for an alternative immediately. They will eventually strangle you, even unintentionally just by neglect. Never put yourself in the position of relying on Oracle unless you're on the Fortune 1000 list.
Again, all my personal opinion and does not rely on any confidential or non-public information. I was just a developer and have no knowledge of strategic decisions at Oracle.
> Again, all my personal opinion and does not rely on any confidential or non-public information. I was just a developer and have no knowledge of strategic decisions at Oracle.
This seems like the sort of polished addendum you'd write if you're used to having to say it over and over and over again. Do you just have this saved as a text expander snippet and use it in all your posts?
My large corp experience is that you are expected to paste a similar disclaimer on all external communications, during your employment, where your employment with that company is relevant to the conversation - explicitly such as above, or even implicitly.
The only place I see this not done is on mailing lists, where your corporate allegiance is more or less expected.
After you've had this bashed over your head a few times, it's just standard cruft to append.
