Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-09-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Not perfect, but great
Pros: Personable, supportive managers are working here.  They've all done the work you're doing so are familiar with how things are for you getting your job done.  Plenty of good coaching and training is encouraged.  Good work-life balance and accommodations are made for health or family emergency situations.  Benefits cannot be beat.  The company sends out surveys to employees at least once, maybe twice a year to assess employee satisfaction and what areas need to be addressed.  Positive changes have been seen from these surveys.
Cons: Little to nothing in the way of pay increases.  After ten years they are eliminating the work from home option for the support organization - money that could have been spent on payroll is instead going into facilities that strictly speaking aren't needed considering the work that's done and all the options for communicating with coworkers, who are often scattered across the hemisphere if not the world.  One star removed from overall rating because of this issue.