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Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?

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Anyone can go onto AWS and see pricing for anything. I got my start with AWS at a 60 person startup with standard Business support. They go out of their way for any company and their live support is top notch. They once found an obscure issue that took them two days and a support person recreating the issue. Amazon takes “customer obsession” to the extreme. I saw that from the inside and outside. Now as far as how th…

That's fair. We've historically used GCP at $WORKPLACE, so I'm used to a much lighter level of customer support GCP support people are believed to exist based on available evidence, but further research is required

I mean Google has never been known for great customer support. As far as cloud vendors - Microsoft and Amazon are far ahead.

Anything dealing with customers, Google is behind Amazon, Apple and Microsoft

Re: Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?

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It's a pretty good place to work for a time. Don't let folk who b!tch that they're the devil tell you that they are unless you experience the company yourself. Lots of folk leave disgruntled because Oracle doesn't give in to their financial demands.

Re: Ask HN: Is Oracle that much more evil than other big companies?

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Few years ago I was having a "let's get to know each other" lunch with an account executive . He was very successful in sales in the company we both worked at the time and quite clearly prior to it. So I asked him about his career history. [It is important for this story to note here that this guy is extremely handsome, and knows it] He describing starting as a shoe salesman in women's shoes in Bellevue Nordstrom, as…

Did he get hated for being handsome, or for being an Oracle salesman?
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