Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-12-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Oracle Gurgaon - Pre-sales/Insight team
Pros: The team offers great work-life balance as its almost a 9-5 job and you never have to stretch at work. The work pressure is minimal and manageable. You can get a good hike of around 30-50% depending on your negotiation skills. 

Team of around 20-25 professionals, split into 2-section (one team managing 'Customer Service' products & other team managing 'IT Products'). The overall team is headed by a Senior Director.
Cons: Only one: There is NO SALARY HIKE.! Yes, you heard that right, 0.0% Hike in the last 4-5 years. 

There are people sitting in the pre-sales team (One Horizon center, Gurgaon location) who have not received any appraisal since the last 5-6 years and are sitting on the same package at which they joined Oracle, which is a joke of sorts since new joinees, who have far less experience, get higher packages than these experienced professionals (who are mostly married women). There is only dry-promotion (promotion without any salary increase), which also will be done randomly in 2-3 years, which is also done at management's discretion (so you might become a Director someday with the package of an analyst). Worth mentioning here is that this is not he fault of the Managers, but is the fault of the top management sitting in the HQ at US. But what the fault of the managers is that even when they know that people are not getting any hikes & are actually working for charity, they don't help in making your life easier while at work. They would keep nagging about leaves & would see you with utter shock every time you would ask for 'work-from-home', as if you have asked for their part of the bonus.

I don't what is the motivation for any sane person to stay in an environment like this, but one explanation is that around 12-14 out the total team of 24 people are married women (some with babies), who prefer work-life balance over professional & monetary growth, but because of that, the management sitting in the US is now used to not giving any appraisals to people working in this team, but getting more & more work done. So if you are someone who wants to grow professionally, then my advice is to not join this team, & even if you want to join, then think of staying here for 1-2 years only, as after that period, if will get hard to explain to the next company that why you did not get any appraisal for last 2 years (and also you package will get be below your peers).

When you do not get any hike, there is no motivation to work for such a company & you are only working for the heck of it. Loyalty towards such a company is zero & I would have never-ever joined had I know that there is no hike. When you will ask this in the interview, you would either get a white-lie response that yes there are hikes, or if you are lucky, you will get an indirect & hazy reply.

In short: Not at all an employee centrist company since Oracle does not care about the professional growth of its employees and is just focused on increasing its earnings only. 

PS: People in the team consider me really lucky that I was able to get out of the firm in 2-years as they are stuck there now because the the difference in their work-ex & pay-package (very serious issue). Someone with 10-years of work-ex is getting only 8-10lpa, so even if they get a call from some other company, it gets very hard for them to justify this dis-balance and the other company cannot hire them by giving a 200% hike, so they reject them.