Company: Oracle
Date: 2011-06-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Organized Chaos
Pros: Its a great place to work if you are looking for a place to settle into a long-term role/ organization. On average, employees are older than at most Silicon Valley organizations. Lots of super smart folks around.
Hours are flexible enough and benefits are comparable to other companies
Cons: A lot of role overlap and project overlap; everyone seems to be doing everyone's job (or have an opinion they could do it better instead of focusing on their roles). It is not uncommon to have multiple organizations working on very similar solutions separately instead of streamlining and having the best folks deliver a joint product.
Alliances seem to be very important and who you know is as important as, if not more than, what you know.
There are so many people that it is sometimes a challenge to figure out the right contacts within the org