Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-09-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Some great, some no great and loads of mergers
Pros: Large stable organisation which isn't likely to get acquired by anyone else. Great work/life balance opportunities and generally above average employee benefits.
Cons: Oracle has grown through a number of strategic acquisitions to date and will continue to do so. While this may be great news for Oracle's revenue stream it does bring with it a number of challenges embracing various prior work cultures. So one of the challenges any employee will face especially through acquisition is finding that next best fit role which provides the same level of career satisfaction. It is most definitely very easy to get lost inside Oracle world, and this unfortunately also creates another challenge for management  - you will find a lot of employees who are complacent and set in their individual contributor roles, staff attrition is typically low as people get comfortable and seldom seem to leave of their own free will which is no doubt attributed to the good work/life balance. So while I might score high on work/life balance below, I have put this into Pro's and Cons section as it simply means people get way too comfortable in the vast spaces of Oracle land and it's easy to get lost in the cracks.