Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-09-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Difficulties of pivoting from traditional enterprise on-premise software to cloud-based services
Pros: Oracle is focused on enterprise business software pivoting to cloud based software services and has invested heavily in cloud for the last 5+ years. Although it is late to the cloud, it should not be discounted as we are still early in cloud based services
Cons: 1. Lack of earlier investments in cloud causes urgency in time-to-market of its cloud based services
2. Time-to-market causes short cuts to its engineering fundamentals
3. Top-down approach to engineering innovation - which kills true innovation
4. Pre-mature optimization - too focused on common engineering processes between newly developing / newly developed services, rather than enabling new services to be deployed