Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-08-29
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great place - if you have a good manager, but things are changing
Pros: * High salaries for the industry
* Good home/work life balance
* Ability to work from home in many jobs, especially in sales
* Very good technology
* Great place to be for technical people - lots of innovation
* Some new Cloud services are innovative and show that Oracle is committed to Cloud
* Not struggling as much as other older, large tech companies like IBM and HP
* If you have backing from your manager, you can get promoted
Cons: * Executive management did not decide to invest in Cloud services soon enough
* De-emphasis of sales consulting, despite the fact that the products are getting more technically complex
* Compensation of sales consultants and sales reps is declining
* Turnover in the sales force is accelerating
* With three CEOs, it's difficult to figure out who is running the company
* Hostile licensing and pricing policies, especially for VmWare customers - but this is changing