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Balance work/life is great, but in terms of technology, it could be so much better

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for 2 years
April 9, 2016
3.0
RecommendsNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Work-life balance is great. You can work from home whenever you need to.

Excellent health insurance, RRSP matching, and university studies compensation.

Cons

Even though it's a big company and it "owns" Java and several other technologies, they are still stuck with terrible frameworks such as ADF and IDE JDev. It seems that some departments are strictly closed to trying new things.

Compensation could be better also; don't expect to get a raise if you don't fight for it.

I believe that this is a project issue, but the planning is shady and it seems that it's only in the mind of higher management.

Some teams don't use any software development methodology.

Advice to Management

Be open to new things; this is what technology should be about. There are great software development methodologies out there, and some teams are still "tracking" their work using an Excel sheet. Sometimes, we need to do things slower so we can deliver a quality product.

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