Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-04-30
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Plenty of work, good benefits, not much else but steady
Pros: Benefits. Pay is average for the area. Nice campus. Fairly flexible hours. Product line has good potential. If you do not like interacting with people this may be the place for you.
Cons: Self service for everything. Matrix management = you are on your own as a wandering drone engineer. No goals, no raises, no feedback except bad,  no career advancement opportunities. Cycled in and out of projects which are never fulfilled and criteria changes to make the schedule.  Many people WFH to avoid heavy lifting but that is now by approval only. A class system of people and so not well defined roles. Test labs a complete mess, which they are trying to correct but not close to industry standard. Now we are told of capital spending cuts after praise for making the last release so successful and increasing profits. Many people cliques. Tight with your manager then you get perks, manager disinterested in you then you get over assigned and 60 hour weeks while others on your team skate. Too many lost efficiencies as very disgruntled previous Sun employees simply do not care anymore and do not interact outside of cliques. Director micro manages test leads and engineers from 30,000 FT and out of touch with engineering realities. Could be so much more.