Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-04-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Oracle has incredibly smart people, an aggressive and fast-paced culture with generally poor management.
Pros: In most cases, you can work from the office or home. The people are overwhelmingly smart and skilled in their roles. The culture is competitive and individualistic which creates an environment where people are constantly trying to get more done and do it better. There is constant change and that keeps things interesting.
Cons: Management at Oracle is generally poor and HR provides little oversight. In fact, HR provides no value for employees and little to no value for managers. It is an extremely process-heavy company that is fiercely risk resistant. This is only mitigated by the CEO's intelligence and risk-taking. Employee satisfaction is not a consideration around any executive office decision-making. Oracle, while reasonably ethical in business terms, is cold, mean and self-centered.