Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-05-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Cost cutting and politics created a negative experience
Pros: The work/life balance was pretty good, and the specific team I worked on was full of bright, passionate people.  The company encourages lateral moves and allows a lot of flexibility in terms of the types of things you'd like to work on.
Cons: Oracle is cheap.  Really cheap.  Entire departments went two years with salary freezes, and constant cost-cutting measures made employees feel undervalued and underappreciated.  One specific example:  In order to improve their books by removing the liability of owed vacation, Oracle forced a company-wide Christmas break on all employees - a mandatory four-day period where we were required to expend nearly a third of our meager 13 days of vacation, without enough notice to actually plan any vacations during the time period.  

During the time period I was there, more than half of my immediate team churned out of the organization.  More are on their way out.  Oracle consistently pays below-market rates for employees, and nickel-and-dimes on benefits.