Company: Oracle
Date: 2021-04-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Solid Company - Good Worklife Balance, Great Insurance Benefits but Tough to Get Promoted or Salary Increases
Pros: These are for Oracle Data Cloud business arm - (Adtech-Martech)

* Collaborative and fun work culture
* Excellent Insurance Benefits
* Excellent Parental Leave - (up to 10 weeks for both parents)
* Flexible Work Schedules - (If you are delivering innovation and value)
* Colleagues in general are smart and helpful
* Great amenities such as gyms, cafeterias , outdoor workspaces
* Vacation is not necessarily tracked.
* Very relaxed work attire requirements unless meeting with clients
Cons: * Very difficult to get raises or promotions so ensure you ask for compensation and title that you expect to have for many years to come when being hired. After seven years of working for ODC, there still does not seem to be an annual review process so even getting standard cost of living raises are difficult.

* Lots of bureaucracy within the product, engineering, and legal teams so very slow or difficult to consistently release products and/or product features. Very difficult to be innovative and keep up with industry competition

* Product leadership and vision seem to change very often. This can impact current projects being worked on and therefore, lot of "throw-a-away" work can be expected

* Currently, only one overarching design team so not all product teams have access to working with designers to create innovative and industry leading digital products. Sometimes, product leads have to wear many hats.

* Product leads often have to wear many hats such as designer, UX researcher, market researcher, Product Marketer, Technical Product Manager vs Product Owner, scrum master, project manager, product tester and system troubleshooter / tester. This can lead to some long nights and also impact speed of product releases

* Engineering resources always seem to be limited and not enough for building all the products and platforms leadership wants to build so again, progress can be slow