Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-07-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

High three or low four stars ?
Pros: As a technology company, Oracle is good company.  They have strong technical leadership in Kurian and Fowler and they invest heavily in R&D to develop world-class products around their vision (currently Cloud).
Cons: The leading issue with working at Oracle is a number of your customers will hate you.  Ironically, these are the same customers that make $M's (or $B's) using our solutions.

Other points:
- Hadn't seen any raises in 6 years, had overtime cut, and dropped car allowance
- For a given customer need, we (in many cases) had competing solutions and the Oracle Sales Teams spent more time fighting each other than engaging with the customer.
- A tendency for employees to myopically focus on their compensation only and to disregard interactions with other groups.  This manifested itself in un-returned phone/email messages and unmet commitments.