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I currently work as a solutions engineer on Oracle Cloud. The product is absolute garbage and I'm miserable. If anyone has any good leads on other positions ple

I currently work as a solutions engineer on Oracle Cloud. The product is absolute garbage and I'm miserable. If anyone has any good leads on other positions please let me know!

jeffbarr 8y ago
Happy to help - there are plenty of open positions on the AWS team!
- AnonCoward222 8y ago
  Hey thanks for the kind words, I sent you an email. Have a great weekend!
  - blauditore 8y ago
    Are you the same person, and if so, why a different account??
    - anoncoward1234 8y ago
      Yes, sorry it is the same person, I apologize for the confusion. I was eating dinner and was using my phone and then came home and switched to my computer. In retrospect I can see how that might seem offputting.
    - astura 8y ago
      Forgot the password to the throwaway?
rosstex 8y ago
I was expecting "Happy to answer any questions you have!", but this was a refreshing twist. Hoping for the best bud.
pram 8y ago
Yeah I worked in PDIT on some of the cloud stuff and it was a sad joke. Get out, you won’t regret it.
devbetadud 8y ago
I'm having the same experience with Azure after coming from AWS.
- halbritt 8y ago
  Ditto. Kinda. I moved a lot of infra out of AWS and into GKE which I'm loving. Outside of GKE, which is great. GCP has a few things that I like better than AWS. I also moved some infra into Azure, specifically into ACS, and then AKS and now ACS-engine. It is very much not great.
setquk 8y ago
You sound exactly like the two oracle engineers I spoke to circa 2000. “We hate WebDB. If you don’t buy it, we’ll get made redundant and can sign on and get free education to do something other than IT. Please don’t buy it. Think of our children”. I exaggerate but not by much.
pubg 8y ago
Are you able to share any specific complaints, gripes or issues? This entire thread is an Oracle bash fest without much specific data or information. Don't get me wrong, not a huge fan of Oracle but am curious to know if there is an actual problem, or if this is simply a hater-ade/fanboy party with no substance.
- anoncoward1234 8y ago
  Given that my comment blew up and has high visibility I feel I probably shouldn't share anything specific. It was a pretty much throw away comment that I didn't expect to get as much attention as it did. The best I can say is that after working for the company I think that the general news.ycombinator.com beliefs on the performance of Oracle are entirely justified. I thought going in that it may have been overblown, like you say some sort of "startups are cool, big corps are evil boo" kind of thing, but it is not. I love the people I work with in my section! Just, not the overall firm.
  - rdl 8y ago
    I wonder if there will be a management witch hunt against the Solutions Engineering team on Monday provoked by your post.
    - stale2002 8y ago
      Well the joke would be on management. I am sure that ALL of the solutions engineers think that the product is garbage, given that they are the ones who have to deal with the problems.
      - userbinator 8y ago
        I am sure that ALL of the solutions engineers think that the product is garbage, given that they are the ones who have to deal with the problems. On the other hand, without the problems, the solution engineers might not exist... ...which is, in one sentence, the reason why Oracle consultants exist.
  - 8y ago
christophilus 8y ago
Amazon's AWS team probably contacts me once a month with job offers. I suspect you could reach out to them and get yourself a much better job. My friend who works for them loves it.
- halbritt 8y ago
  I've a friend up in Washington that loves it. That said, I've worked with a lot of ex-AWS people that couldn't stand the culture.
- PenguinCoder 8y ago
  I've been contacted and interviews a few times with AWS and threat Intel team but never got ANY followup after the second interview. It's disheartening. At this point I'm ready to give up. Why do their recruiters keep reaching out If they never even give a Yay /nay after six months and two interviews?
emmelaich 8y ago
I've heard IBM's Cloud is much the same. The only thing it has in common with a proper cloud thing like AWS or GCP is the 'cloud' in the name.
- coredog64 8y ago
  Isn't IBM's cloud offering built on top of Cloud Foundry? (Not saying you are wrong, just trying to figure out which partner is to blame)
  - emmelaich 8y ago
    Wouldn't matter what it's built on :-)
  - manigandham 8y ago
    No. IaaS is Softlayer which they acquired, a mix between VMs and dedicated machines. Worked well before but networking is now obsolete, operations too manual, and any price advantage is long gone. The rest of their products are managed services running on this, similar to the other clouds, and they work fine for what they are. Bandwidth costs are always the limiting factor though with any cross-cloud situation and their Watson AI is useless and nowhere near what they hype.

I currently work as a solutions engineer on Oracle Cloud. The product is absolute garbage and I'm miserable. If anyone has any good leads on other positions please let me know!

jeffbarr 8y ago

Happy to help - there are plenty of open positions on the AWS team!

AnonCoward222 8y ago
Hey thanks for the kind words, I sent you an email. Have a great weekend!
- blauditore 8y ago
  Are you the same person, and if so, why a different account??
  - anoncoward1234 8y ago
    Yes, sorry it is the same person, I apologize for the confusion. I was eating dinner and was using my phone and then came home and switched to my computer. In retrospect I can see how that might seem offputting.
  - astura 8y ago
    Forgot the password to the throwaway?

rosstex 8y ago

I was expecting "Happy to answer any questions you have!", but this was a refreshing twist. Hoping for the best bud.

pram 8y ago

Yeah I worked in PDIT on some of the cloud stuff and it was a sad joke. Get out, you won’t regret it.

devbetadud 8y ago

I'm having the same experience with Azure after coming from AWS.

halbritt 8y ago
Ditto. Kinda. I moved a lot of infra out of AWS and into GKE which I'm loving. Outside of GKE, which is great. GCP has a few things that I like better than AWS. I also moved some infra into Azure, specifically into ACS, and then AKS and now ACS-engine. It is very much not great.

setquk 8y ago

You sound exactly like the two oracle engineers I spoke to circa 2000. “We hate WebDB. If you don’t buy it, we’ll get made redundant and can sign on and get free education to do something other than IT. Please don’t buy it. Think of our children”. I exaggerate but not by much.

pubg 8y ago

Are you able to share any specific complaints, gripes or issues? This entire thread is an Oracle bash fest without much specific data or information. Don't get me wrong, not a huge fan of Oracle but am curious to know if there is an actual problem, or if this is simply a hater-ade/fanboy party with no substance.

anoncoward1234 8y ago
Given that my comment blew up and has high visibility I feel I probably shouldn't share anything specific. It was a pretty much throw away comment that I didn't expect to get as much attention as it did. The best I can say is that after working for the company I think that the general news.ycombinator.com beliefs on the performance of Oracle are entirely justified. I thought going in that it may have been overblown, like you say some sort of "startups are cool, big corps are evil boo" kind of thing, but it is not. I love the people I work with in my section! Just, not the overall firm.
- rdl 8y ago
  I wonder if there will be a management witch hunt against the Solutions Engineering team on Monday provoked by your post.
  - stale2002 8y ago
    Well the joke would be on management. I am sure that ALL of the solutions engineers think that the product is garbage, given that they are the ones who have to deal with the problems.
    - userbinator 8y ago
      I am sure that ALL of the solutions engineers think that the product is garbage, given that they are the ones who have to deal with the problems. On the other hand, without the problems, the solution engineers might not exist... ...which is, in one sentence, the reason why Oracle consultants exist.
- 8y ago

christophilus 8y ago

Amazon's AWS team probably contacts me once a month with job offers. I suspect you could reach out to them and get yourself a much better job. My friend who works for them loves it.

halbritt 8y ago
I've a friend up in Washington that loves it. That said, I've worked with a lot of ex-AWS people that couldn't stand the culture.
PenguinCoder 8y ago
I've been contacted and interviews a few times with AWS and threat Intel team but never got ANY followup after the second interview. It's disheartening. At this point I'm ready to give up. Why do their recruiters keep reaching out If they never even give a Yay /nay after six months and two interviews?

emmelaich 8y ago

I've heard IBM's Cloud is much the same. The only thing it has in common with a proper cloud thing like AWS or GCP is the 'cloud' in the name.

coredog64 8y ago
Isn't IBM's cloud offering built on top of Cloud Foundry? (Not saying you are wrong, just trying to figure out which partner is to blame)
- emmelaich 8y ago
  Wouldn't matter what it's built on :-)
- manigandham 8y ago
  No. IaaS is Softlayer which they acquired, a mix between VMs and dedicated machines. Worked well before but networking is now obsolete, operations too manual, and any price advantage is long gone. The rest of their products are managed services running on this, similar to the other clouds, and they work fine for what they are. Bandwidth costs are always the limiting factor though with any cross-cloud situation and their Watson AI is useless and nowhere near what they hype.