Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-04-06
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

No career growth path, no raises/bonuses, skimpy vacation with a week stolen at year end.
Pros: I really can't think of any.  I guess I made some friends.
Cons: Cut throat culture, very much sink or swim.  There's no opportunity for career growth.  After close to 25 years I only had 3 weeks of vacation, of which the company forced everyone to take a week of vacation at the end of the year.  I used to think I was making a difference and developing software that was important- finding 10's of thousands of bugs, but it didn't matter.  Frustration with the vacation policy, lack of raises/bonuses/stock options, and feeling unappreciated as a long time developer of the company's flagship along with watching money being wasted on building a high school all added up and caused me to walk away and retire.