Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-08-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

It could be such a great place to work ...
Pros: My direct management and team are terrific, competent people - best I've worked with in my career thus far. Lots of opportunities to work with people of different backgrounds and cultures. Can work from home as long as the work gets done. Benefits package is nice, but go for a big starting salary as raises are quite infrequent, even for top performers. Some internal applications are helpful and very easy to use.
Cons: Management at the VP level is top-heavy with pockets of incompetence. Focus is not always on offering viable, high-quality products that meet the needs of customers, but on winning political battles, making decisions based on bonuses, and maintaining or expanding turf. Opportunities for raises and promotions is not good in my area, and the workload is consistently quite heavy. Good teams are buried with even more work, and incompetent teams aren't called upon to step up their performance, from what I've seen.