Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Where is TK right now ? at Google

How long TK at Oracle ? decades

Case closed.

Oracle is a Sh-t sandwich top to bottom.

i work at and will continue to work at Oracle - I have Oracle on my LinkedIn and get recruited multiple times weekly for fairly good roles at good companies....so unsure why it would ever be considered a negative. Perhaps it’s the actual experience listed? Perhaps you did not accomplish enough when you worked here to be able to overcome that objection from the recruiter? To eachs own, Oracle is not for everyone but if you can figure the place out you it’s a great place to work.

A repository of older people?

Where? Not in Austin!

It depends.

Sales and marketing roles at companies like IBM, SAP, and HP welcome Oracle people.

If you go for a developer, designer, or devops job, that's a different story.

Everyone knows that Oracle acquires and resells. In-house development is a second-class citizen.

The devops practice at cloud companies is at least a decade ahead of Oracle.

This is just because almost all of Oracle's revenue comes from on-premises products.

What Oracle calls SaaS is just hosting. The apps themselves are 20/30 years old.

"having oracle as the latest employer is a drag for the next job search."

Yes, i would agree if you've been couched there at 5+ years. You got some xplaining to do.

having oracle as the latest employer is a drag for the next job search. Specially if you’re trying it for fAANG or MSFT

What is that saying: it is a poor musician who blames the instrument.

Oracle is not responsible for your career. You put a high IQ student in a low rate school ... that student is still smart.

TK was at Oracle for 20 years. Look where he is now.

People like you rarely succeed because you never take responsibility for your shortcomings or bad decisions. It is always someone or something 'holding you down.'

But i digress. I think you are just another layoff casualty who cant move on.

There are all kinds of jobs that require Oracle database related skills. It just depends on what kind of company you apply to. Don't get me wrong - as a former Oracle engineer I hate the Oracle executive team as much as anybody, and many of the scathing criticisms of the product are right on. Still I never found it to be a disadvantage to have Oracle on my resume. For the most part, the name recognition was helpful. If a recruiter laughs at you, it is a good indicator that he or she is not a good fit for you.

try for jobs outside Bay Area. Many folks outside of Silicon Valley are not fully aware of the incompetence of Oracle. You can movie back to the companies rejecting you now with the new employer name on resume

I'm a 10 year Oracle developer and actively looking to get out of here. We aren't seen as a competitive company and we acquire all of our ip. No one creates new products, we just recycle someone else's ideas and hope to fool the customer base into pumping money into worthless support contracts. Recuriters tell me that they talk to Oracle employees all the time who want out but can't make it to the first pass of interviews because they stayed at Oracle so long - for tech jobs - not sure if it matters for sale and marketing types, but I'm definitely networking and taking any interviews even if it not exactly in my field. I'll take a pay cut to get out (and btw, I had no raises in over 8 years)

@YTEBwR0 oh , and yes, by the by, you too will be old one day and I hope some robot wipes your a--.

@YTEBwR0 WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH.

If you want to be at the forefront of AI etc, then fine, I agree.

BUT plenty of jobs out there for ordinary folks who don't have PHds on the resume and who don't take kale smoothies and quinoa for lunch and don't have CBD massages in the office.

Just check out indeed.com, matey