Acknowledgments
When I joined Oracle in 2018, I inherited a team that had been kept busy with uninteresting work for too long. This small team had little motivation left and had little visibility. In the management world, inheriting a team may be a curse; most newly hired managers prefer to build their own teams. I didn’t know what to think. I was determined to have an open mind. At the core of this team, three people stood up in their own way. They wanted to matter and to build AI models that can reach many customers. Oren Benjamin, Anqi Shen, and Arhan Gunel questioned me. They questioned each decision I made, and I was annoyed from the beginning. But from them, I learned about enterprise-level software engineering, and I learned about how ...
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