Oracle never offered job security

Oracle has always been very open, if not in words then in practice, about how iffy your job security is. You need to learn and earn to the max while the opportunity is there and always have a Plan B for when the music stops. Very few people I worked with made it to retirement and they were excellent and high value earners in their positions.

Oracle can provide you with great financial and technical opportunities. You just have to pay attention and realize that your odds of lasting there for a long time are slim. Think of it along the lines of "The Scorpion and the Frog" fable.

An on point post from @unb+1hRipCox.

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Oracle is sinking and has never cared about their employees. The VPs are also faked, they control the budget, not ICs or anything else.

“ Oracle is good for job security. Only pay is low “

Especially if you are on a visa.

I posted this in another thread but it applies equally to this thread.

Oracle skills are relevant when you are hired. After that you are just there to make profit from the product you were acquired with (or for if hired directly). No real opportunity to gain marketable skills at Oracle. No training plans other than Oracle Cloud or specific products not sold or used by other employers. If by some chance you are selected to work on new products that will sustain for a couple years until that product is out of favor. Very few get that opportunity more than once. So you have to ask yourself.
“ Are you working on the new products or, are you being leveraged to provide support(profit) on the existing products?” If it is the latter your skills will become less and less relevant every year/month at Oracle. They plan for their acquisitions not their employees.
Oracle is a job, not a career.

Oracle is good for job security. Only pay is low

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