Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-03-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Micromanagement at its worst
Pros: You get to work for Oracle and put it on your resume.  Also they have great health benefits, yummy desserts and there's a gym at HQ.
Cons: Management has been sitting in the same position for 15-20 years, stuck in a hierarchical and old fashioned way of doing things.  They are 10 years behind the rest of Silicon Valley in Benefits.  

Micromanagement down to the minute you arrive and the minute you leave.  Literally mapping out your day for you by the half hour.  There is zero trust from management and no real responsibility given.  As soon as you meet expectations, they are continually raised until you are broken down.  Even in non-sales departments, performance is based on numeral values and meeting numbers.  

If management does not like you, they will single you out, pick on you,  reprimand you for ridiculous personal things and treat you like a child. 

The pay is at the national average and not raised to meet the Bay Area standards.  Pay raises are minimal to none (about 1% if at all).  There is absolutely no opportunity for growth or professional development in a position, unless you move laterally to another department.  Promotions are very political and are not dependent on your years worked, knowledge or capability, but if they like you.

No culture and no feeling of unity.  Self Service company with too many confusing sites to get anything answered.  

The offices at HQ are updated by floor and if your management doesn't want to pay to update it, you are stuck on a dirty, dark 90's floor, in high grey depressing old cubicles, stinky bathrooms and zero natural light (if you don't have an office).

Basically, an overall stressful and depressing experience.