Have you lost your job due to offshoring? If yes, where did your job go? How's that offshoring move working for Oracle right now?
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My position was also offshored to India, in late 2015. While there was an initial cost savings, in the longer term, the work lagged because the developers were based in the US, and the output delivered by the team in India was not of acceptable quality and had to be redone in the States and the UK. That's not to say that every offshore effort is a failure, however. In the area I formerly worked in, Oracle has been steadily losing business to competitors; the company that I went to work for post-Oracle transitioned away from Oracle in 2016.
Even people in India don’t want to work for Oracle. They have a bad reputation here.
After the S’Oracle merger, support centers opened in S. America, India and China. The current us staff helped staff and train at the beginning and for the first several years. We worked hard to get them up to speed bc that was our Sun value: teamwork.
The decent people hired got better jobs. Apparently those overseas support centers are all closed in favor of the next low cost center. Solaris 12 hits the dustbin of computing history. There you have it in a nutshell
Glug glug glug.
Good riddance.
The 3 stooges live in the bs layer and have no clue what’s actually happening, just counting the $s, down, down, down she goes oracle
I was a presale in Spain. my job was moved mostly in Malaga and partly in Romania. I think in the short term O has saved some money, but I'm still in contact with my former customers, and I'm sure on the long term O has lost a huge amount of money. when I told Telefonica, BBVA, Santander, Metro de Madrid, etc.. that I was fired and from now on they will deal with a remote hub they start laughing asking me to stop joking. when I said I was serious, they stopped laughing saying that was inconcievable, and that they would start a plan to exit O. by the way, I was also offered a job by many of them.
but at the end I think this is exactly what O wants to do O is no more interested in onprem business, and so this is consequential.
The on-premise code was moved to India. I hear that's not working out so well. Slow to fix bugs and bad support response.
my job was replaced by bringing a manager from India to US. never see such a low company.
My job was offshored to India. They probably saved about $50 grand but then the customer couldn’t understand my replacement and stopped paying for support which cost Oracle millions. I would say that is a tremendous reverse ROI.