Company: Oracle
Date: 2009-02-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Acquisition not innovation
Pros: Good name brand for resume. It is the best database, very useful to have oracle db knowledge and skills for other technology positions. Decent training curriculum for both technical and soft skills but recently cut back a lot.
Cons: Difficult to relate how your work translates into something that matters, takes too long to get adoption from customers. Constant supposed bakeoffs of technologies creates an insanely political environment, the best or most innovative technology frequently doesn't win, the most tenured or savvy leader does. Only one leadership style is highly rewarded, brash and ambitious.