Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-02-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Train yourself, then get chewed out for how you weren't trained
Pros: Pros:  Free drinks.  You can probably get time off whenever you need it.  One guy went for "a haircut" for 5 hours!  If you enjoy going to pointless meetings all day and not doing any real work, you are apparently management material at Oracle.  If you enjoy getting a "fun"-sized box of miniature cereal for a Christmas bonus, you'll love it here too.  Certain positions have no accountability or responsibilities, so you might get lucky and get one of those jobs.
Cons: Cons:  Our company "merged" (was Borged) with Oracle and everything we were promised before the merger never happened.  Oracle gave no raises to anyone in our facility in 2013 despite the company making billions.  Whatever you were hired at, is probably what you are stuck with, so negotiate a big salary right off the bat.  Oracle loves micromanagers and nitpicking.  Very little training or feedback provided.  Nepotism is rewarded.  They will promise big and deliver nothing.  Laughably outdated software system.  Inflexible, inattentive to innovation.  Your manager will probably take all the credit for your hard work while you just get asked to do even more.  CEO is more interested in racing boats and getting product placement in Iron Man than in spending much-needed money updating decrepit hardware and software.