Company: Oracle
Date: 2008-08-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Everything you've heard about Oracle is true
Pros: If you get the right nook, you can vest in peace. Some of the teams are quite good, some of the people competent.
Cons: Micromanagement culture. Poor quality software; quite low developer:QA ratios. The not-invented-here philsophy is amazingly pervasive--they have their own source control system, which is not a product they market. The email collaboration suite you're forced to use is abysmal. The calendar system regularly removes events from the calendar. I've never seen anything so unfunctional put up with by so many.  They won't let engineers buy any product that competes with an Oracle one--don't like their IDE, tough, it's all you can use. Don't ever expect your manager to be able to decide something without having to ask 5 other people ahead of time--including if you're allowed to go to the bathroom. You'll need a hall pass for that.