Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-12-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Think Twice Before Joining
Pros: - Insurance package is very good
- Some of the products can be market-leading (especially if coming through acquisition)
Cons: - Generally treat employees badly. Along with a few others, I was "promoted" to the Oracle Digital Prime position from a business development role, but my base salary was cut to less than 50k per year.

- As you can see from the above, the company really does not value existing employees who perform well. Saw this to be true not only in my role, but across a number of different roles/organisations within the company. On the contrary, company threw money left and right to bring on questionable reps and managers on board to become part of Oracle Digital Prime just because they got a push from above to fill in positions quickly. 

- Only way to get a pay rise, regardless of your performance, is to get an offer from another company and threaten to leave. Then things get done very quickly for you.

- Recently lots of incompetent people hired who do not have the right experience. This includes managers as managerial roles are very difficult to fill with Oracle. Oracle has a reputation of a place where managers have no power (most things have to be approved at HQ level), but there is tremendous short-term pressure on results.

- No clear career path for most positions.

- Very bureaucratic, process for the sake of process, even if it makes no sense whatsoever. 

- Extremely political company.