Company: Oracle
Date: 2010-05-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

sweatshops for programmers
Pros: Industrial recognition
wide range of products that are top-tiered
abundance in operating cash flows
global team
Cons: long hours - working day and night around the clock (weekends and Friday nights, and sometimes even on vacation days)
politics
no overtime pay (almost) ever
lots of people slacking at work especially employees who were brought in via acquisitions
business-oriented; resources/compensation doesn't get allocated to award people who tackle finer details like constantly changing business logic, processes, and rigorous data requirements (volume and data quality) via data sources acquired thru' acquisitions
poor management style by senior management
managers are not necessarily supportive
managers are not well trained to do project managements, but rather, squeeze staff to produce reports in the shortest amount of time