Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-09-30
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Avoid unless you're related to/good friends with the managers
Pros: Stable working environment
Some good quality people
One of the best medical plans
Over Time is payed accordingly (200%)
Cons: Horrible work/life balance.
Late shifts end at midnight.
Apart from December 25th there is no guaranteed holiday, you have to work during weekends and bank holidays.
Zero promotions unless you're good friends with the managers.
Also if you don't continuously flatter your managers, there is no room for empathy, they are also very VERY suspicious and will micromanage everything 
Zero training opportunities.
"There is no budget" is every manager's catch phrase. 
This is a company that hires lots of people based on the family ties/close relationships with management, needless to say that many new hires have close to no skills whatsoever.
In some departments/LOBs, Oracle lost 75% of their existing clients because the organization delivered poor quality technical support. 
Working staff members (usually veterans) are treated like disposable material (in hope that they quit) and are forced to work extra whereas a person who is a close friend of the manager doesn't have to work at all - if you make the mistake of bringing this up in a 1-2-1 meeting you're marked as an enemy and the subject is quickly disregarded: "right now we're not talking about X does and doesn't do, we're talking about you".
You are encouraged to leave if you don't like it there but internal transfers are impossible (unless you're friends with the hiring manager of course).  
Upper management (VPs and up) lie to your face as often as they can.
Satellite teams are often arrogant and don't share any knowledge.