Company: Oracle
Date: 2009-01-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Oracle: Bring your A game.
Pros: Great product line and prestige. Also, the vast majority of Oracle employees are very intelligent and very talented. It was great to work with a group of smart people.
Cons: Incredible pressure to perform NO MATTER WHAT. They are very intolerant of outside circumstances and current market conditions. The numbers have to be met no matter what happens. No excuse is tolerated and that is because the expectations flow upwards. Each manager has heavy expectations on them and each one of their managers has even more on their shoulders.

Also, Oracle will reduce staff regularly and without any fanfare in the market place. They will whack chunks of the org chart with no notice. Only producing salespeople are safe.