Good time to join Oracle! - Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle Employee Review

5.0
7 Dec 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1) The company is all hands to the cloud - and there is more interesting work underway. I meet a lot of veterans here who stuck with the company because of its ever changing landscape - unlike any other companies - oracle owns its stack - top to bottom and you learn a lot from each stack if you are in the right team. 2) Acquisitions doesn't hamper innovation - quite the opposite. You learn so many things from it - and at the some time you get to know how it can be improved, or what to pick from it to improve Oracle's existing process. 3) PLENTY OF TRAINING materials! Be it LVC, On demand or Instructor based - employees get access to those as long as your manager is cool with it. 4) Awesome gym / HQ atmosphere - nothing like it in the bay area 5) Engineering work culture

Cons

1) Internal tools are very old - and it takes so long to see them upgraded. (damn you Iprocure) 2) There is always a question between 'doing it the architecturally correct way' or 'doing it to meet the deadline' - and can be dangerous to find a middle ground for such cases. 3) Some product teams have a weird motto: 'if it works, why bother improving it?' which is one of the reasons Oracle lag behind competitors in terms of simplified interface

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5.0
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Pros

Great team and people that you work with

Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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