Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-09-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

A place that has lost it's way
Pros: The best part of this job was the fact that many positions offer remote work from home. You also have the ability to work (sometimes) with leading technologies. There are lots of collaborative opportunities if you work in an office - not so much if you are working remotely.
Cons: Management has lost focus and spends so much effort on margin reduction at the expense of employees. They used to tout a car allowance as a benefit, then took it away from us at a cost of around $700/mo from me. Great way to cut pay without reducing salaries. If you are highly paid, don't expect raises. As with other companies, it's the lower paid, lower producing folks that get the raises it seems. I've always found this really weird. I love it when my manager tells me that I'm just to highly paid and that I don't fit in the group that somehow rated a raise. Five years now.... I'm not the only one - our group freely talks about compensation Oracle, so what you do is no mystery. It didn't used to be this way.... when I first started at Oracle it was a great place and you felt like management was plugged in, competent and appreciated the troops. That's all gone now...