not customer and employee centric company - User Experience Designer Oracle Employee Review

1.0
24 Sept 2020
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Pros

Big organisation with big budgets, can sponsor whatever makes employees "happy" such as fancy events, kitchen equipment, games, teambuildings. As a designer, you have plenty of space to experiment. The UIs are really bad, it is easy to make them better. Good for juniours who need to screw up few things first. You will get a top end equipment such as latest model of macbook, all perriferies you need.

Cons

Culture is terrible. Typical corporate culture even though they try to look like cool team. It is not truth. Problems are fixed with free lunch and then the leaders brag about it for weeks. There is not enough designers, expect overload of work. More then designing you will be business modeling. Designers are generally not considered on the same level as PMs or DEVs. You will need to build your own position. Not easy for juniors. There is a lot of pushbacks. Research is not the standard. If you want it, you do it. Do not expect PMs to base their decisions on research. They use gut feeling or middle management advice they do not completely understand. Middle management is not helpful, they ale a blocker from being fast and agile team. They block things from release because they want things to be 100% ready. They do not like to risk anything.

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5.0
4 June 2026
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Pros

Plenty of opportunity to earn well over $100,000.00 with Standby pay and OT. Plus, mileage reimbursement of $.70 a mile.

Cons

Sometimes tedious work below what I would consider for an experienced FE such as hard drive destruction bin audits and checking in equipment.

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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