Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-04-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

The cult of personality around Larry is unsettling, and the lack of principles of motive beyond "make money" is grim.
Pros: My direct manager was great, that's about it. I wouldn't have taken the job or stayed there for 3 years otherwise.
Cons: It's a sales-driven company. Engineering and innovation are not top priorities. The biggest business challenge they face is consolidation through virtualization, and not much is being done to address it other than shaking down customers through audits. The sales force is coin operated and wouldn't know a solution if it walked up and grabbed their nuts. The technical sales guys are spread so thin that it's very hard for them to be effective. The overall organizational structure has more to do with the egos of the senior execs than anything logical.