Focused on short term profits. Don’t care about employees. - Principal Hardware Engineer Oracle Employee Review

2.0
21 Oct 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers from Sun Microsystems. They do hire great people and inherent ones from acquisitions. Benefits seem to be above average but vacations are stingy. The new open vacation policy will probably make things worse.

Cons

Management goals to replace experienced (older) employees with new college graduates from overseas (cheaper). After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems 90% of the engineers did not get annual raises. They only gave raises to the “top” 10% and when promoting new college graduates after one and two years.

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5.0
7 July 2026
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Pros

Innovative team, good WLB most of time, high salary

Cons

Risk from layoffs, high work hours

4.0
21 Oct 2014
Recommend
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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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