>I don't get it. Because reputation and reality are two different things. IBM still produces significant amounts of research, for example in semiconductors. It

>I don't get it. Because reputation and reality are two different things. IBM still produces significant amounts of research, for example in semiconductors. It's usually the top or among the top companies in terms of patents per year, which is a decent measure. It's the same with Oracle. Has a bad reputation among the hipster internet crowd, but researchers or engineers generally earn good salaries and have significant freedom and problems to work on for probably any domain of CS you're interested in.