Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-07-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

It's time for change. No opportunities to grow professionally or financially.
Pros: Great benefits, work-life balance is good if you can work remotely, vacation accrual is better than most companies, good product support, and not too much micromanagement
Cons: The raises, if there are any, are very small. See many people who have been there leave to get a 20-30% raise and then come back. It's obvious that management and officers are not spreading the profit around. Most officers and managers (especially those in global biz units) have no clue what the "worker bees" are doing, yet they must rate and rank them annually. There are managers who manage like 1-2 people who could easily be cut out of the loop. Absolutely no type of mentoring program exists. If you want to learn more, you have to beg for training (even for your own product line) and your immediate manager and the one above them are only interested in one thing, the bottom line. On my consulting team I have not heard one person ever say they are happy to have a job with Oracle. This is because they have been mislead, misguided and not respected in any way. Base salaries are WAY below market for consultants. Many people regret staying after being acquired or accepting their first roles. Many people leaving for competitors or smaller companies that actually care about them and are interested in doing good, honest work. Only way to get a raise is to tell them that you're leaving.