Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-08-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

A Mixed Bag
Pros: Oracle is a focused, aggressive company.  That's good, as long as your division is the object of their obsession, or at least benefits from it.  Otherwise, no love at all.

Each major division succeeds or fails on its own merit; there is no sharing of pain.  Again, that's good if you're in a group that is on the upswing.

Compensation appears to be on par with competitors.
Cons: They tend to be a bit myopic, and therefore, late to market on anything not database.  Witness their scramble to compete in cloud.


Legalistic and risk-averse to the point of stifling innovation.

Marketing laggard. Brand identity is strong but other forms of marketing (web, SEO, content) are weak, late to market.

LOTS of infrastructure and process.  Everything is "self-service".  Good luck.

It's clear leadership values employees simply as commodities to generate revenues, rather than valued resources in whom they make investments. Case in point: Layoffs come with no warning, just BOOM - today's your last day. NO chance to seek a transfer to another division in the company.  

Oh, and your healthcare benefits terminate at the end of that day, too. (They will pay your COBRA for first 30 days, but that's pretty measly.)

Interpersonal culture can be openly hostile and narcissistic, with no consequences for the bad behavior.    Watch your back and don't look for open, honest dialog in search of better solutions or anything vaguely resembling collaboration because those who waste time on 'managing up' tend to win.  Oh, and try not to be female; depending on your division, that can be a problem.