Yeah, and the stuff you work on is really cool. The GraalVM project is probably the most advanced compiler and VM infrastructure in the world and it's not in th

Yeah, and the stuff you work on is really cool. The GraalVM project is probably the most advanced compiler and VM infrastructure in the world and it's not in the old Sun parts, it seems to be pure Oracle. I have to admit, I didn't have a great impression of Oracle before the last few years or so, but sometimes I can't help feeling that their reputation may not be entirely deserved. Google went from having stellar reputation to being dumped on continuously and routinely described as 'immoral', although nothing about the firm or what it did had actually changed. Ditto for Facebook. Microsoft went from being the cool kid in the 80s (against IBM) to the evil monopolist to the stagnant yesterday's team to being cool again very recently, although I doubt the company has actually changed so drastically. If I were looking for a job tomorrow I'd definitely consider joining the Graal team. Oracle's reputation (and now these layoffs) would certainly make me think twice, but, the work is cutting edge, high impact, Oracle has been a relatively decent steward of Java and its "negative" actions have only been about trying to make it fiscally sustainable, which is hardly a bad goal. And it's not like they've pursued that goal aggressively.