2. Life at Oracle Inseok Chong, Ph.D. Consulting Member of Technical Staff

3. Outline Introduction Career paths Work schedule Projects Patents Outside activities Compensation Miscellaneous

4. Oracle as a company Largest enterprise software company Second largest software company Database, Middleware, Applications 85,000 employees Headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA Revenue : ~ $24 B Database market share : ~ 50%

5. Oracle Headquarters

6. Career Paths Technology track Associate MTS, MTS, Senior MTS, Principal MTS, Consulting MTS, Architect Management track Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Senior Director, VP, Senior VP, Executive VP, President, CEO

7. Work Schedule as R&D Staff Flexible work hours Project-oriented Projects : Features requested by customers Challenging problems New Ideas Meeting : brainstorming, discussion, presentation

8. Projects Initial investigation Prototype – proof of concept Project proposal – reviewed by a committee Functional spec. - review meeting Design spec. - review meeting Test spec. - usually done by a testing group Implementation

9. Coding Development tools – check out, check in Testing and debugging – regression tests Code review Merge request Merge approval Merge

10. Patents Initial disclosure Patent review committee Meeting with patent attorney Patent application documents review Signatures International applications – Europe, Asia

11. Outside Activities

12. Conferences Ph.D. R&D staff – 30% research, 70% development Outside publication is encouraged Conference attendance Oracle OpenWorld – presentation, demo Invited talk

13. Money Matters

14. Compensation Highly competitive salary Yearly bonus Stock options Employee stock purchase plan 401(k) match Patent bonus One of the best benefits in industry

15. Eatery & Fitness On-site cafe: breakfast, lunch, dinner Free coffee, milk, juice, soda Friday evening – free pizza On-site gym

16. Desired Qualifications Individual capabilities Team player