r/Python • u/19c766e1-22b1-40ce • 2d ago

Discussion Is Odoo nice to work with?

I might have a new project at hand and they settled on using Odoo. While I know Python and a couple of web frameworks such as Flask and Django, and I will dive into their documentation, a question still remains: from a developer's side of this framework, is Odoo nice to work with?

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u/16lr 2d ago

It is not used by big companies so it will not be a good practice to master it because you wont use it. For research and general knowledge, it will be helpful.

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u/divad1196 2d ago

Kinda wrong.

True: many companies will neber switch as they are too commited to another ERP (Sap, dynamics, salesforve, ..). But: Odoo has started like 2 years ago to target SAP customers. They have an agressive advertising with really low prices, many companies did the switch from other softwares. You can find a lot of companies using Odoo.

But the ERP itself doesn't matter: - working on an ERP (whatever the ERP is) gives you valuable non-technical skills - knowing an ERP as value for the employer: quicker to adapt to the companies' ERP, will have an external opinion on how to do things, ...

I only applied to 7 job interviews after my Odoo job, got 4 job offers (1 refusal because of salary requested too high and 1 job I told them I had found a job already before I got their answer). In each interview, they asked me about the ERP. And I know it was the same for my colleagues that left the company.

So, don't underestimate what learning it will bring you.