Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-01-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Boring work, old-school company.  Good people though.
Pros: -Smart, kind coworkers.  Oracle hires great people, and the people I work with are definitely the highlight of my day.  
-Strong middle management.  In my experience, middle management is competent, helpful, and relatively hands-off.  Have yet to encounter a micro-manager.  
-Strong senior management that has a vision for the company.  
-Paid sick days.  
-Good work-life balance, at least in sales.  We are paid hourly and Oracle discourages overtime, so when you're off work, you're really off.  It's a nice feeling!
Cons: -Measly vacation policy - 13 days per year, very few company holidays (e.g. NONE around Christmas time except Christmas day itself)
-No flexibility in working hours
-Low salary - for Bay Area living anyways.  The amount on the contract looks like a lot, but half of it is tied up in quarterly bonuses and thus can't really go toward monthly living expenses.  Expect to live in a cramped place with roommates.
-Internal tools are quite outdated.  Internal processes can be burdensome and take up hours of your time.  
-Never-ending training. 7 months into the job and I still have to complete hours and hours of online training modules.  
-No perks (i.e. no food or snacks, no team outings, few work from home opportunities).  If you want a fun, young company that offers the perks that have become standard in Silicon Valley, go elsewhere.