Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-11-21
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Depends on a place and a department you are
Pros: Speaking for Reading, UK

Stable, people work there till retirement if you're in a right place, you just need to do some minimum and you're just fine.  Depending on a team, but for us(engineers) it was quite flexible in terms of remote work and work from other offices. You can get more paid holidays using your bonus points. Good work/life balance. But it depends on your team and a manager.

Some teams even have interesting tasks, but you really need to perfectly understand where you are going, with whom you are going to interact, which tasks to solve. Don't underestimate this part. 

This company has made some sane moves, but it is mostly in the US.
Cons: First, be prepared that your work will be thrown away as many times as needed, direction will be changed and you just stop fighting at some point because you find it totally pointless. No salary raises. If you bring another offer then they match it, otherwise it will be something like £30 a year maybe. 

Politics, VPs change all the time, it makes no sense to even memorise their names. Different people(our new VPs) come once in half a year to meet you and present the same exactly motivational speech. When the same exact problems are addressed, they cannot do anything about it.

You can easily get a totally technically inadequate architect and you will have to listen to this person and implement things they say, even if you totally understand that there it is totally dumb, pointless and leads to nowhere. We tried to fight it back, no way.

After some time, people see that nothing can be changed and go to the "minimal effort made" mode, because they are totally demotivated and at this point either change a job or stay forever, losing their skills and market value.

If your future team works with offices in India, just RUN AWAY. Hiring practices there are the worst I've seen so far. They do mass hiring there for no money and the quality is exactly about the amount of money paid.