Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-09-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Huge, bureaucratic company, great at team level
Pros: I had a great time working with the former Sun Microsystems part that Oracle Corporation acquired in 2008. Specifically working on the Solaris kernel. This part I like--a lot. I worked with one of the best teams of people in terms of talent and being part of a cooperative, fun team.
Pay is good--or at least competitive.
Being a big company gives many opportunities to look around elsewhere if you don't like what you are doing now.
The top-management are competitive and have business smarts (if not always technical smarts).
Cons: Huge bureaucratic company with many processes to slow productive work down.
The corporate level seems hostile to cutting-edge technology and research.
Too many layoffs--they seem to perfer to layoff than reassign people.
My part of the company, former Sun Microsystems/Solaris/SPARC, is now gutted and doesn't really exist any longer except for a skeleton crew for sustaining support.