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The 25 million lines of code is only the source code of Oracle Database written in C. The test cases are written in a domain specific language named OraTst which is developed and m…

I have not found this to be true at all. I have seen both US and Indian developers adding good code as well as ugly code to the Oracle Database product. The actual damage was done …

I was given 5 minutes to ask questions after each round of interview. That part was ordinary too. That's what most of the other companies do (FAANG or otherwise).

> Tests that run for 30 hours is an indication that nobody bothered writing unittests. Yes, they were not unit tests. There was no culture of unit tests in the Oracle Database deve…

That would have been fun but in reality there was no downtime. Developers like me were expected to work on two to three bugs/features at a time and context switch between them. If …

On the contrary, the interview was an ordinary one. The screening round consisted of very basic fizzbuzz type coding ability checks: Reversing a linked list, finding duplicates in …

Oracle Database 12.2. It is close to 25 million lines of C code. What an unimaginable horror! You can't change a single line of code in the product without breaking 1000s of existi…

The entire Oracle company still uses Zimbra for email.

I worked at Oracle for a few years in their database development group (internally known as "RDBMS"). You would be surprised to know that they follow a strictly waterfall process t…

I am sure there are many stories where Oracle sues its employees. Take a look at this one for example. * http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/... * http://ww…

Because someone is incompetent? Oracle is a safe haven for incompetent managers and so called team leads. I know a few ex-colleagues of mine who left Oracle to join other companies…

Let me share a few anecdotes myself. - A couple of years ago, the company was providing us Oracle branded corporate diary for free. An employee was allowed to order one diary. The …