“Oracle has a different, you know, culture than Apple, which has a different culture than Facebook.”
Oracle
By Oracle Corporation
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“I was working at Oracle for 10 years from 1986”
“The very first thing that I learned in my career was SQL and Oracle.”
“there's companies like Oracle that are massively valuable driven with sales-driven product”
“if you're like Oracle and databases you know you're 40 years in you're still the leader”
“it's not like most people have worked at Oracle or sap”
“I was a leader at Oracle for five years”
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