News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010) by bitL on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:54PM (#15164444)
Another interesting tidbit about Oracle - if you leave as a peon and return back after a few years, you are given exactly the same conditions as you had when you left, regardless of what you did in the years in-between. Oracle doesn't care if you progressed in the meantime.
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010) by junkculture on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:43PM (#15164837)
Why would anyone go back?
Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010) by oraguy on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:44PM (#15165568)
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 were.

It is not in Oracle's DNA to hold managers accountable or fire them for management blunders or shoddy management. So when some of these managers and team leads from Oracle joined other companies, they found much to their surprise that they were answerable to higher management for the state of the project they were managing. They could not keep up with the pace of development or having concrete responsibility, and returned to Oracle to live a purposeless but relaxed life where one would earn less but otherwise thrive in the company by doing little to no actual work.

Re:Why I Quit Oracle (2010) by junkculture on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:54PM (#15165612)
That's pretty much what happens to de facto monopolies.

I've heard much the same about Microsoft's program managers.