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Number 6 on the Forbes list of software companies, with a market cap of 176 billion. Their main product is very heavily used by a heck of a lot of companies. It's just a bit messy and configuration-intensive, so it doesn't get a lot of respect among the techerati.

A software engineer looking for work could do a lot worse.

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None of that means they make great products. Have you ever dealt with their support or engineers? Ugh.

Not all of us are in a position to work only on great products.

My impression of Oracle products is that they are frustrating to work with, feature-rich rather than elegant. They can work well, but take a lot of configuring and tuning.

The ex-Oracle folks I've worked with have been a mixed bag. Their reports about working for Oracle have also been mixed, skewing toward the bad. I suspect the company is basically run by sales, not engineering, certainly not customer support.

If you’re a software engineer in the year of 2019, you’re not exactly hurtinv for opportunity.

I have seen both a well-implemented Oracle ERP and a poorly/non-implemented Oracle ERP.

It is both the best and worse SaaS I have ever used, though my company may be switching to NetSuite ERP soon (technically also now an Oracle product).

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