Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-10-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

You've been warned -ALERT!
Pros: -Oracle have one of the most comprehensive technology suite in planet, for someone who is keen into learning tons of stuffs in one company, this can be a good place
-US culture hence as long you delivers your job no one really cares when/where you work[unless you're unlucky to have micro manager]
-Sales is KING here, so yes good place if you(sales) want things in your way.
-Decent benefits, but nothing much to brag about
-There are some really brilliant, friendly, talented, and great people here, though it getting much rare nowadays because they have better opportunities.
-You can/should demand very very awesome pay if you coming from competitors as long you know how negotiate well. Make sure you do this because you know what you will be facing and NO INCREMENT for years to come whatever role you are.
-Everything is negotiable in Oracle, from promotion/increment/territory change, etc. So pray hard you have a good manager and negotiate hard. 
-Empowered employee is true here because from day 1 to last day is SELF-SERVICE culture including setting up/formatting your laptop
Cons: -Hire and Fire Culture: Restructuring is such a norm that you're numb of it. Every 6 months a minor and 1.5-2 years massive earthquake. For front liners, you literally wouldn't be able to focus because the top mgmt  doesn't have a long term strategy at all. Worse, the top mgmt make it like experiment. They could set up a new group(like Oracle Digital) and demand the current workforce to relocate. If you don't want to relocate, then technically you just have to leave. So technically you see in paper Oracle seems growing but that's big lie, because they indirectly lay off huge team and hire people in. After 1.5 years, the OD team get killed again. Gotcha!

-Acquire and Kill strategy: If you can't win, you acquire, Oracle is genius in this space. Nothing wrong about acquisition, but the problem is when you killed it. Think of best of breed at the time like JAVA, PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel, and many more. Where are they now? They are DEAD! This leave customer who invest millions of dollars into product and overnight Oracle tell(force) you to move to cloud which is not apple to apple. Customers(esp FSI/Telco) literally HATES Oracle and pity frontliners gonna deal with FIRE and sell them cloud while executives hide behind them. Also, good talent leave with knowledge, the new people doesn't know how to sell essence of solid product and acquired BEST products are slowly becoming irrelevant as time goes.

-Ego Empire: You may heard of Thomas Kurian news. That's how it works in Oracle. No customer in market see Oracle as leader in cloud as compared to AWS/SFDC/WD. But top mgmt/Larry just doesn't want to recognize it, why should they anyway(high pay and retiring). The reason Oracle is more cost effective is simply they mark up prices on AWS platform. Also product never really develop for customer but more for their own ideas.

-Good people are not appreciated here: I've seen loyal, humble, hardworking, nice, and talented people who delivers but just treated cruelly, and the bullies and smokers climbing the stairs because they know sell themselves and squeeze others. That's why more good people left and more leeches stays on Oracle.