The first thing I did was ask why we don't use sqlite or at least postgres. The answer was that they are free and therefore we don't trust them. So Oracle it is. Which is bananas because our customers have to buy an oracle license, which is money that we don't get. Pretty wild

Your experience with databases was probably clouded by having to use Oracle.

It could be worse; there's always DB2...

Sqlite is running on billions of devices and has a test suite with 100% branch coverage.

Only a fool would put more trust in Oracle.

> has a test suite with 100% branch coverage

Is actually even more than that, has 100% MC/DC coverage [1], which is something that is not easily achievable for most projects.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#:~:text=In%20this%20way%....

> The answer was that they are free and therefore we don't trust them.

If you don’t mind a bit of unsolicited advice: run.

I mean you do a job because of the pay, not because you like the people or they are particularly competent. So it's a good gig for two years or so

I’ve found that surrounding myself with competent people - or better yet, people far better than me - has lead me to much better paying jobs.

It also makes you look less like a genius haha. Yeah maybe you're right. It wasn't the best choice in hindsight. But switching jobs is a relatively rare thing in Europe. You only can do that ever so often, so I'll have a bit of waiting to do