Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-10-28
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

The beast continues to grow
Pros: oracle can be described as a stable company acquiring interesting technology and strategically placed in fortune 1000 companies.
There are individuals that consistently contribute to the company's success, but management as a whole does nothing to foster that spirit and there is a clear lack of "global message" combined with a strategy to move towards this message other than in sales. 
This makes sense because one of the corporate cultural traits is that it is $$$ driven and that aligns well with those in sales but is inconsistent when positioned against other espoused "corporate values" such as innovation, customer service, return-on-investment....
Cons: fractured identity depending where one is from (acquisition wise)
fractured ownership of customer (is it sales? consulting? support? other?)
middle management is not empowered to make strategic decisions
bureaucracy