Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-03-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Heading in the Wrong Direction
Pros: Oracle still has a broad range of great technology.
There are many opportunities to do Interesting work.
The company still has lots of smart, hard working people, though fewer than there used to be.
Cons: This is a company headed in the wrong direction. They missed the boat on cloud and are now playing catch up. The general attitude of executive management is that everyone can be replaced. This means that raises, corporate bonuses, promotions are nearly non-existent. It also means that fear-based management has taken hold and that sociopaths are rewarded. Cost cutting, beyond the point of diminishing returns, is the order of the day. Mark Hurd is doing to Oracle what he did to HP.