oraguy

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by oraguy 8y ago
The 25 million lines of code is only the source code of Oracle Database written in C. The test cases are written in a domain specific language named OraTst which is developed and maintained only within Oracle. OraTst is not available outsid
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by oraguy 8y ago
I have not found this to be true at all. I have seen both US and Indian developers adding good code as well as ugly code to the Oracle Database product. The actual damage was done much before I had joined Oracle. It appears that somewhere i
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by oraguy 8y ago
I was given 5 minutes to ask questions after each round of interview. That part was ordinary too. That's what most of the other companies do (FAANG or otherwise).
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by oraguy 8y ago
> Tests that run for 30 hours is an indication that nobody bothered writing unittests. Yes, they were not unit tests. There was no culture of unit tests in the Oracle Database development team. A few people called it "unit tests&quo
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by oraguy 8y ago
That would have been fun but in reality there was no downtime. Developers like me were expected to work on two to three bugs/features at a time and context switch between them. If I submit my test jobs today to the farm, the results wo
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by oraguy 8y ago
On the contrary, the interview was an ordinary one. The screening round consisted of very basic fizzbuzz type coding ability checks: Reversing a linked list, finding duplicates in a list, etc. Further rounds of interviews covered data struc
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by oraguy 8y ago
Oracle Database 12.2. It is close to 25 million lines of C code. What an unimaginable horror! You can't change a single line of code in the product without breaking 1000s of existing tests. Generations of programmers have worked on tha
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Oracle congratulates user for being the 2000th follower of OracleJET on Twitter(twitter.com)
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by oraguy 9y ago
The entire Oracle company still uses Zimbra for email.
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by oraguy 9y ago
I worked at Oracle for a few years in their database development group (internally known as "RDBMS"). You would be surprised to know that they follow a strictly waterfall process to perform database development. The results are ho
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by oraguy 9y ago
I am sure there are many stories where Oracle sues its employees. Take a look at this one for example. * http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/... * http://www.thehindu.com/to
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by oraguy 9y ago
Because someone is incompetent? Oracle is a safe haven for incompetent managers and so called team leads. I know a few ex-colleagues of mine who left Oracle to join other companies and were shocked to see how fast and agile other companies
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by oraguy 9y ago
Let me share a few anecdotes myself. - A couple of years ago, the company was providing us Oracle branded corporate diary for free. An employee was allowed to order one diary. The cost center would pay the price of the diary which if I reme