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Worked at Oracle for 6 years. IMO the company is incredibly authentic. Cares about a lot about making money for Larry, doesn’t care that much about the customer
by Top19 9y ago
Worked at Oracle for 6 years. IMO the company is incredibly authentic. Cares about a lot about making money for Larry, doesn’t care that much about the customer, etc. Always had this “you always know where they stand feel”. It’s kind of sad that today these are how good traits after years of “be authentic!” and “find your passion” sermons.
Contrast this will the duopoly of Facebook and Google. Robbing the world blind while also wanting credit to be the “good guys” and who totally “aren’t evil”.
FWIW Oracle employs 150,000 people at about a 150 B market cap. Facebook employs 17,000 people at a 450 B market cap.
Oracle is bad in many ways, but it’s slowness and inefficiency does not represent a threat to global democracy and stability like Google and Facebook do.
ALSO: Oracle has hired about 15,000 liberal arts graduates over the last 4 years as part of their “Class Of” program. Many of these people, and I worked
with them, would not be in the middle-class today if it weren’t for Oracle considering their degrees/background. Program has had mixed success, but in a time when all companies either want a CS degree of 3-5 years work experience, I’ve never forgotten what an opportunity Oracle offered those people.
- deadmetheny 9y agoDon't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, indeed[1]. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m04s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m04s
- selimthegrim 9y agoThose liberal arts graduates were part of running the Cover Oregon project into the ground. I know. I met them.
- tc7 9y agoTangential: I just read the wikipedia page on this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon#Website_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon#Website_failure]. Is there any more in-depth information available about what went wrong on this project (or others like it)? I'd love to read a post-mortem, or some technical explanation of what goes wrong on projects like these. Does the code just not work? Is everyone purposely just billing time and milking the contract, or does it start with competent analysts and developers trying to deliver working software? And if so, how does it get from there to here? Is this a typical gov contract thing that I've just not seen by working private sector? If anyone has any resources on this sort of thing, I'd love to see them.
- selimthegrim 9y agoThey were hiring anyone who could write a coherent English sentence to fill out a Gantt chart and ride herd on the programmers, no systems integration experience necessary.
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