Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-02-03
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

CAD org, chip design - corrupt management with no ethics
Pros: In the CAD org the people here are for the most part very smart(all masters and phds) and nice.  The technology and knowledge is very impressive as it has been built up for many years since Sun days.  The engineers here have a lot of potential.
Cons: There are a lot of politics in the CAD org and the management have no idea what they're doing.  The engineers are good but a lot of the management is corrupt several levels above the engineer level.  There have been multiple instances where people have copied code from other people within the org and do various malicious things like try to take control of it, etc.  I have heard the stories about this from other people.  In one case there was a code copying issue that was discovered where an entire team was engaged in copying code from another team.  In simple terms, they disabled the other team's code from being released to users and enabled their own version to be released to users all in secret.  When the engineer that discovered this reported it to management several levels high instead of taking action against the code copiers the engineer was retaliated against by placing him under the manager engaged in the code copying.  When the engineer complained about the retaliation he was moved back to the previous manager and then given no work to do and essentially frozen.  HR and management did nothing to make the situation better.

Also, it seems that while other groups are hard-working, the CAD org has way too many people sitting around doing nothing except justifying why they need lots of people to make fancy internal CAD tools instead of buying them from external vendors.  I've noticed that a lot of the people in CAD work very short hours and have nothing to do.  If you join Oracle, definitely join design instead of CAD.  Instead of using the great resources the CAD team has to build really good tools, the management is content to have everyone sitting around doing minor little improvements.