Oracle India - Need not be a resource center. - Senior Manager Oracle Employee Review

3.0
13 Apr 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

One of the few Product development companies around. Starting off as a junior engineer an employee can rise up to managerial positions fairly quickly. Opportunity to move within groups exists. Oracle India has product development, consulting, release management, technical sales, demo services, sales and many other job roles. After acquiring a host of companies, opportunity to work on many other interesting products like Essbase and Weblogic is also a possibility. Consulting Orgs provide opportunity to travel to different parts of the world. Oracle also provides educational benefits like tuition reimbursement. Oracle's facilities both in Hyd and Blr has a well equipped gym and a decent cafeteria.

Cons

Oracle unlike SAP or Cisco is driven out of the Headquarters. Not much scope for growth. While the growth to Sr Mgr can be quite fast ( if you are good), higher levels of growth may not happen. SAP with its own campus also makes sure that the board visits its India offices every year. Cisco has made sure that senior executives in the levels of a VP are encouraged to relocate to India. This creates a culture here akin to the culture in San Jose. Same is the case with Intel where senior managers were asked to relocate to India.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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