Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-01-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Great place to work but don't expect to be properly compensated in the long term
Pros: - Great work/life balance
- Telecommuting friendly
- Product and engineering driven
- Work with very talented people
- Encourage submissions to conferences
- Time to do design exploration
- Strong attention to top quality
Cons: - Compensation, Bonuses, Stock Options are very poor after you are hired, except if you are very very senior
- Cliquish in regards to promotions
- Promotion opportunities are lacking
- Do not reward loyalty properly
- Performance Reviews unbalanced and to discretionary based on manager; inconsistent 
- Cutting edge work that could be killer features gets descoped by upper product mgmt if not a "standard"
- Too many coasters in the PM dept
- Working on one release while debugging the previous; need these to be better phased