Company: Oracle
Date: 2010-05-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Fear-Mongering culture: no place for individual decision making or leadership
Pros: - Strong health benefits
- Strong focus on bottom line profitability
Cons: - Complete management through fear, no decision making enabled at management or field level. All comes from SVP level and above.
- No internal accountability, individuals are not driven to succeed just to avoid perception of failure which will lead to firing.
- No risk / reward. "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down"
- Extremely compartmentalized organizational approach (no end to end ownership)
- Very poor / non-existent internal communication, no focus on customer
- President through VP level very commonly swears incessantly and berates management and field resources in individual meetings (ala. Glengarry Glen Ross). Very disrespectful. 

- Not a company that rewards top performers and dynamic problem solvers, intentionally drive those individuals out of the organization, so they can pay less for wheel-turners.