Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-10-21
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Overpromise, Underdeliver, and blame the people at the bottom
Pros: - Rapaciously aggressive sales force that is pushed to promise anything to anyone for a buck keeps the pipeline full
- As an industry standard DB, it keeps everyone's technical abilities up to speed
- Good health insurance available (for now)
Cons: - no salary increases/bonuses for years
- very little commitment by management for operational delivery, issues of responsibility or delivery can be unaddressed forever.  Always time for "hair on fire" let's finally get some customer's issues addressed, absolutely no time to figure out why that always happens
- lots of responsibility pushed down the management chain with absolutely no way for those at the bottom to affect any change or deliver what the customer expects.  Which ends up with a lot of "it is some other team's fault" situations