Company: Oracle
Date: 2008-12-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Good company if you're a starter.  Don't stay for long.
Pros: Big brand. Good growth opportunities if you're in California or India.
Cons: Compensation sucks.  Too many acquisitions in recent years means the company doesn't have a culture anymore.  Moreover, in all the layoffs that happened at Denver office (4 layoffs), not even a single manager was let go, while hundreds of individual contributors was shown the door.  This is so unusual for a tech company, and reveals how the politics at Denver office works.  Most of the Denver managers have been there for a long time because they are incompetent and won't find work elsewhere.  This has created a culture of favoritism and mediocrity.