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Some Truths About Oracle & OCI

Consider this my rant or warning but I feel people should know the truth because you won't know this during your interviews here. Joining OCI can be a bad decision by many different reasons:

You have to work on a project 14x7 (14 hours, all 7 days of the week). You don't have an option. Until you fix it or finish it, you stay in a war room (zoom call). I have seen many people getting anxiety issues because of this and left OCI in the end.

We have terrible internal tools. I haven't ever heard a single good thing about them, EVER. Everyone is complaining but no one can do anything because people are keep leaving and management is afraid to talk to their upper management about issues. Teams have ton of tickets to resolve but their hands are also tied.

Boring work. I was really excited for the first year when I joined. There was lot of interesting work and lot of smart people around me. Now, we do ops work most of the time. It's either deployment or fixing some boring security bug. If you want to do any type of dev/feature work, you need your VP's permission! Lot of good people who are still here are planning to leave and it's very scary.

I know people will ask me why don't I just leave. I am stuck here because of my immigration situation.

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Oracle is a dump all the way around. Even the newer areas like OCI really suck.

Get out of Oracle. The rats have taken over there. You don't want to work with rats. Leave and let them devour each other.

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Post ID: @2vsd+1fjuFkU1

Try interviewing at another company, discuss the fact that you require sponsorship assistance. They will deal with it, if they want you. And ask for more money. It is a sellers market. Meaning companies are looking for ways to attract people.

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Post ID: @1aws+1fjuFkU1

Since no one is jumping in to defend OCI, they are off my list. Even with all the sh*t talk about Oracle, there was some hope that OCI functioned as a real modern cloud provider. Ok, maybe a smaller one with a niche purpose, but anyway. Learning about the nasty behavior of the clayguy, stories about arrogant neck beards in hoodies and sales trickery, forget it.

Always have two lists. One, of companies you would like to work for/sell your services to. The other, companies who don’t deserve your excellence. Don’t be afraid to move companies between the lists. Add and subtract entries. And never, ever compromise your morals.

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Post ID: @1rub+1fjuFkU1

sux2bu@oracle.com

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Post ID: @ziq+1fjuFkU1
I know people will ask me why don't I just leave. I am stuck here because of my immigration situation.

And that is why some companies like H1B's. They have a captive audience. It is very expensive and traumatic (for families anyway) to just pack up and move, even if you want to.

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Post ID: @lxh+1fjuFkU1

Is this across the OCI org, or just the immigrants who cannot leave treated like this? Is that horrible clayguy still in charge? What’s the employee morale like? Are you using modern cloud tools like splunk, Jenkins, etc.? What ticket system is in use, JIRA, SF, etc.?

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Post ID: @tte+1fjuFkU1

You may be working 98 hours in a week's time. Any normal hire would not be doing that.

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