Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-03-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Acquired Company Employee Review
Pros: As with all companies there are some good people at Oracle. The pay is OK, benefits are good/average. Those employees that came with me via the acquisition are great which helps. They have made some phenomenal tech acquisitions are are growing one of the strongest product suites for the Marketing Cloud.
Cons: Where to begin.... Oracle is MASSIVE. I can only assume this is what it is like working for the government (which is not something I would ever want to do). The bloat, the waste, the offshore teams, no raises,  the incredible lack of flexibility are just the tips of the iceberg. 

A multitude of sales people get compensated on deals that they did nothing to help support/close (and may not even truly know the customer very well). I don't mean just a manager, I mean many sales people which is just a HUGE waste of money. The sales teams push on everyone to get a deal done when they don't held the deal get done, didn't help setup the deal, and only are pushing so they get paid (again even though they didn't lift a finger to close the deal). The processes in place are so inflexible that customers and employees pay dearly for it. 

I could go on and on, but will leave you with this. The company culture is one I have never experienced before. Truly I feel the vast majority of folks at Oracle are out for themselves alone and don't give a rat's you know what about fellow employees or the customers. This breeds negativity that permeates throughout the company which is the ultimate reason I chose to leave. Don't get me wrong, everyone has to think about themselves and their families, but folks at Oracle take it to limits I have never seen and I have worked at a number of companies, both large and small.