Company: Oracle
Date: 2008-12-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

tech company for lifers; low paid; no career management
Pros: stable job; safe company; great for lifers

 It's great for the H1B worker sticking by to earn his green card  - Oracle is very good with sponsoring for immigration, in return, they own you for the 3-4 years it takes to get it done.
Cons: no career progression; stupid politics; people not motivated.

Oracle is the land of the walking dead employees.   Pay is low by Silicon Valley standards and the work is monotonous.  In general you require a heavy dose of politics to get anything done or promoted.  People are largely unmotivated except when it comes to positioning themselves to benefit from the annual restructuring - knives come out relatively quickly then.