Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-03-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A well run company, but lay offs are not uncommon.
Pros: Really good communication across the company. Oracle uses its own technology, so using the internal systems is pretty easy and reliable.
Cons: This is a huge company, and nearly all decisions come from the very top of the food chain. Everything is driven by the bottom line, so lay offs occur without warning and typically make little sense to individual contributors. Don't think that just because you're swamped in work, you're too valuable to the company to be laid off. You're not viewed that way. The people who pull the levers have no idea what you do day-to-day.