Finding entire skill set is obsolete. World is completely different than the one we lived in. No one understands what I worked on for 15 years and if I can bring any value to them.
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@wt same. No one ever said anything about my time at oracle and really, what I learned was nothing I could talk with me. What I did see was a ton of cr-ppy people who would steal money off your table if it was the last money your family had. Also had mgmt who defrauded the US govt for their personal profit. Just the sc*m of the earth. I have zero pride about my time at oracle and it was the biggest mistake of my life to even stay there. I lost so much time and wasted so much energy supporting things that were meaningless and people who were horrible. I’m actually happy they will su-k for the next decade and are a hated company.
@d5 they are
@wt Just yesterday I had a call with a recruiter who contacted me out of the blue. While I'm was not interested in position I had I couple of former colleagues who would be, so I got in touch with him planning to pitch them. I asked him why he contacted me and he said that he was impressed with my long standing career with Oracle.
@jq During that year I took course with MIT (paid, not really happy with the program, cannot recommend), freecodeacademy ( free; OK could be better) and 100devs (free, online rt and later available on yT - I liked this one the most).
@ja having Oracle on my resume meant nothing last three companies. No offense. Just being honest. Like another person asked, what did you learn? Were you learning every day?
@d5 actually the old white guys are the only reason we are where we are today ,whether it be Oracle or the US.....both are F....Ked up.
@ja Can you tell us what you learned/trained on during that year of job search when you landed an amazing job? I got rifed last October and not a single interview until now due to obselete O skills. Thx
@OP Five years ago I was let go from O after 20+ years thats to AWS folks whacking our org. Initial shock of not working with current technologies and having outdated skills was brutal. It took me a year to land amazing job, also it required a lot of learning during that year. I was happy at the end that this happened to me. You will be too. Having Oracle on resume was helpful too. Good luck
@cm Redwood, OCI, Cohere. Nobody use that stuff
@bx the point is, without the right keywords applicant tracking systems send the application into the bin.
@d5 the source control system used by fusion and db, the test harness o*test, bugdb, uip.
@ch on this site it is just assumed that either or both h1bs or old white guys are the root cause...
@b2 What dev tools would these be? From what I saw all dev tools used at O are open source
Interesting to see no one in this thread is blaming h1b for obsolete skill sets. Good luck though. IT is a ruthless profession. Constantly upgrade skills or get left behind
@b2 How hard can it be to learn to use a new bug tracking tool?
Oracle dev tools are completely worthless. The dev ops stack is all in house and has no relation to what other companies are using. The testing framework is home grown. The bug tracking is html from 1992. These tools all work and function pretty well but of zero relevance outside O.
Even if one retrain, recruiters still measure based on your work experience. Your best chance is with a company that uses Oracle technology, even though now will be lots of potential candidates with the same experience as you.
Feed your resume with your personal information removed into chatgpt and asked it to write a resume version/format for the current job market. It may help to translate your Oracle specific skills into generic terms. I would be surprised if other companies aren't doing the same work you were doing. Spend your free time learning new skills. Check out coursera, a lot of classes offered by major universities and large companies at reasonable rates. You can check it out for free. Learn AI tools relevant to your field of expertise. You can't avoid AI it isn't going away. The people who land jobs will know how to use it.
Feel the same, not RIFed yet (pretty sure that will be on next stage, a couple of months maybe?) My skillset is obsolete since I'm doing the same job for last 17 years at Oracle. Management su-ks.