Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-08-19
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Oracle Java Platform Group : Run away as fast as you can and do not look back
Pros: 1. Flexible work schedule
2. WFH
Cons: 1. Java platform group might seem like a dream team to work for, but beware, this group is in free fall and is about to shut-down. Oralce has least interest in pursuing Java and the group is choked of all funding and resources.  

2. Bi-yearly layoffs has become a common thing. Nobody is safe and people are living in fear of layoffs. There isn't a single person I know that is not looking out for job change.

3. You think you can join the team and get to work with awesome people, you are wrong. This place has very few good people, the old timers, architects, who work in a tight knit group and they would never let a newbie inside. The rest of the people are a bunch of rejects who are unable find jobs outside and doing bug fixes and trackign CI failures

4. You think you can join this group and make awesome contributions to Java, you are wrong. Most of the important work will be grabbed by people at top and if you are lucky you will be allowed to assist them by testing their code. But mostly you wiill be fixing bugs in test cases.

5.  India management is the absolute worst who only know how to harass employees to get work done.  The employee morale is so abysmal, there is not even a single emplyee who hasn't raised escalations to HR. Lot of employees have quit and the rest, unable to bear the torture, approach the HR or contact the labor department. Some have even planned to get lawyers involved. Never have I witnessed so much involvement from HR w.r.t employees and management. Managers and employees shouting and swearing has become common and HR just seem to have given up. This place is just waiting to blow up.

6. Zero hikes year on year. Even promotions do not come with pay hike. Just  title change and more responsibilities.