Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-12-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Strong vision, getting weaker on execution
Pros: Oracle has a great portfolio of products and strong industry experience.  As an employee it never gets boring with all the recent acquisitions.  With Oracle's market share in either database or applications it is fairly easy to get an audience with almost any Fortune 1000 company.  The company has a good benefits package and they treat their employees fairly.  There is a good work/life balance and many first line managers are employee focused.
Cons: Executive management likes to keep internal competition alive which creates confusion for customers (multiple products to solve the same problem) and internal fighting among the sales teams.  The company has too many middle managers who seem to create meaningless programs to justify their positions.  They rarely give out cost of living increases or raises, and transferring internally is very difficult.  They have lost a lot of great talent in the last couple of years that has not been replaced.