Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-12-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Flexible Schedule, Good People, Loads of Bureaucracy
Pros: Overall, I enjoyed my time at Oracle but it was wasn't a company I would ever call home. 

The company is huge, so I can't speak to all of it but within my team:
 
- My schedule was very flexible
- Lots of work from home options
- Decent benefits including 401K matching
- Very much a outcomes based team, not a "butts in seats" team
- Decent pay (I've heard a lot of rumblings and jokes about lack of raises)
- Good people, including immediate managers. (Mine were all excellent!)
Cons: Considering most of the team is distributed throughout the world, it was very hard to get things done and everything moves painfully slow. This might be a plus for many but I'm anxious to get my work done so it became frustrating at times. 

Most companies struggle with creating an efficient process, but I found the same problems at Oracle that I had within much younger and smaller companies. It was often hard to do quality work because of too many cooks in the kitchen or inability to get access to information)

The internal tools to do anything (order supplies, complete evaluations, download files, etc.) are hard to use. It took me two days to figure out how to get the right cable to hook up my monitor. Figuring out who to talk to regarding HR matters such as benefits also took an unnecessarily long time.

Vacation policy is low IMO for the tech industry which is 2 weeks, including a mandatory 4 days over the holidays.

Very little opportunity for traditional growth for certain roles. Of course, you can always be proactive and speak up. They will listen.

This is neither a pro or a con, but I feel the need to include it anyway. Oracle has very little of what I would call company culture. It's a very "do your job and go home" company.