Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-01-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great until reorganization downturn
Pros: Tons of resources to learn new technologies.  Work-life balance comes in cycles depending on where you are in a release cycle.  Benefits were satisfactory (better than spouse). Enjoyed my time working at beautiful HQ office with walks around the "lake", great gym amenities,  jogs on nearby scenic trail and plenty accessibility to diverse cafe's and restaurants.  Grateful for professional and personal support over the years.
Cons: Traffic to/from HQ office was hard and way too expensive to live close by.  Typical of Bay Area, I get it.  I understand aggressive schedules for releases but it felt it became increasingly harder and compounded during a major reorganization that seemed forever to feel settled (actually never did after the last one). Might have been phases of it. It was just a constant uneasiness to know what was expected and project redirections.  Difficult to get clarity from various heads.  Morale and motivation was a struggle to maintain through this last reorganization... and I've had my share over 15+ years there.  It's a big corporation with an overwhelming number of avenues to look up employee resources that are constantly updating. So when you think you have a go-to link or internal site... it's updated with new look and feel or you get redirected, and you have to relearn the info on that. THEN try to update your shortcut to "new" resource and remember or you just get lost or spend unnecessary time trying to remember (which definitely has happened).  Again, big corporation, you are just a number.