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1999/3/2-3 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:15518 Activity:insanely high
3/2     I just got an AWSOME offer from Oracle. What do you guys think
                \_ Ok girl, what's the offer like? why are you so silent?
                      \_ Apparently they didn't make sure candidates could spell
                        \_ Spelling is opshunal at Orickle.  -Orickle employee
        about going there?
        \_ In the apps division? Hope not cuz they biz sucks are Oracle...
                \_ Ok girl, what's the offer like? why are you so silent?
                      \_ Apparently they didn't make sure candidates could spell
                        \_ Spelling is opshunal at Orickle.  -Orickle employee
        about going there?
        \_ Oracle definition of "5/1 Development"-- Spend your first 5
           years debugging other people code. Complain about the quality
           of the code while debugging it up. After 5 years, you spend 1
           year writing your own code. Don't debug your new code; have
           new hires spend their first 5 years debugging your code. The
           new hires complain about the quality of your code. You leave
           Oracle. After 5 years, the new hires spend 1 year writing
           their own code. They don't debug their new code; they have
           new hires spend the first 5 years debugging their code. They
           leave Oracle. Restart.
           \_ One person complained that they didn't like using in-house
              dev tools and would rather be using industry standard tools
              (MSVC6, etc.)
              \_ hopefully that idiot has been fired from oracle, and
                 has taken a $20/hr job at mickeysoft
                \_ Should you be fired if you use MS windows, words or excel?
                   This is PROGRAMMING, you numnut. If you are using
                   a M$ product for programming, in an environment that
                   usually requires high reliability, etc. then you
                   should be fired. Even if the product itself does not
                   directly make things crash, a penchant for using M$ tools
                   is a bias that should be purged as quickly as possible.
                        \_ I worked at oracle for 3 months (internship) and
                        all the dev tools *are* standard! we used only gmake
                        and gcc, or g++ whenever available, or the cc ov that
                        specific *nix. go to hell VC for unix dev???
                   \_ you sound quite familiar with product bias
                \_ Oracle doesn't fire people.
        \_ Pride in work is kind of unimportant there, and morale isn't
           exactly high either, at least in the front- and back-office
           Apps divisions.  (yeah I was a tech writer there, but I'm
           talking about the developers) --goetz
                \_ Back office market is drying up and Siebel is kicking the
                   shit out of Oracle in th front office, what's to like...
                        - Siebel Employee
        \_ But they have a grrreat in-house email system!  -John
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