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Ripe for the picking in business apps

Senior Principal Applications Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Oracle for 2 years
March 12, 2014
Pleasanton, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

-- Free beverages.

-- Most engineering staff is smart and capable of good work.

-- Benefits are good and comprehensive, but nothing stands out.

Cons

Your start salary will likely be your end salary. Some technologies (ADF, ADF Mobile) are so poorly architected that you have to question how well this company can do anything. Inter-division politics, which admittedly exist everywhere, are especially bad in the applications group. Lots of 'useless people', who don't seem to fill any specific role, but don't seem to be bad enough to be fired.

Advice to Management

Dump ADF and adopt some open-source technologies. The more you cling to ADF, the faster you will lose people, because no one wants to derail their career by learning a dead-end technology.

If you won't do that, at least open up your wallets and pay people more. Morale is pretty low right now.

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