Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-03-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

All ideas must come from the top
Pros: Oracle has some great people in the development organization.  Pay is reasonable.
Cons: Unfortunately, a lot of the great people in the development organization end up leaving because they cannot deal with executive management's "no ideas except the ones we come up with" attitude and schizophrenic approach to engineering (e.g., shifting their attention and resources to address the problem of the day).  Executive management keeps the strategy so compartmentalized that no one outside the inner circle understands where they are trying to go.  They parcel out and delegate, sometimes overlapping work to groups that don't realize others are also working on the same tasks.  This approach not only leads to a lot of wasted effort but also a "house of cards" architecture where nothing hangs together without a great deal of post-release integration.