Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-04-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great place to be from
Pros: Talented and hard-working colleagues.  Good health benefits. Good self-training resources though you have to use them on your own time; if you're motivated there is a lot of opportunity to learn. Work/life balance depends on your manager and your own will power. Oracle will take all the time you give it. Employers are impressed if you're from Oracle. Products are deep and well-established, so there's a lot to sink your teeth into. There are a lot of great interest groups - networking is key (but most of us work remotely).
Cons: No salary hikes, raises generally frozen - if you want a raise, leave and come back negotiating. Travel also frozen - most of us work remotely now, so you never get together with your team. I've only seen promotions at upper management levels. No company loyalty to employees - layoffs can come any time. Company is so lean that everyone remaining is hugely overburdened. Leadership  is smart about company direction (lots of high-level VPs and up)  but there's no one managing the change across organizations well. Very silo'd. Very old tools or no tools. Tendency to start employee networking tools and then abandon them.