Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-03-25
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Could Really Be A Lot Better - Sometimes Not Sure What To Think
Pros: - Oracle offers excellent benefits, good pay and a stable work environment.  In my position, I work from home so that's really nice.  

- I think my management team means well and does their best to support their team with what they have to work with.  

- I think Oracle is trying to help their employees grow and learn more through the use of training tools offered online such as books and video training.  I've recently seen information to help ou plan your career out.  This helps a bit

- In my area, Oracle is rapidly expanding so the there's never a shortage of work.  This can be good and bad.

- For the most part, I get a long with everyone and my internal customers appreciate my help.
Cons: - Oracle is a complex company with many moving parts.  This can make understanding the big picture difficult at times.

- Sometimes upper management can seem a bit bureaucratic at times and it can be difficult to get your ideas or concerns attention

- Internal career advancement can be difficult.  I've noticed that applying for a position internally can be surprising hard to work through.  Over time, I've noticed that opportunities I applied for will not even get an answer.  I believe if you apply internally, you should at least get an acknowledgement detailing why you didn't get the position and what you can do to improve.  

- Communications can be poor.  There's way too much email.  Somehow you end up being subscribed to too many email distribution groups.  Really, I feel like I'm drowning in email.  I receive no fewer than 300 emails a day.  I hate looking at my email.

- Everything is "urgent" and "top priority."  Hardly anything is low priority.  I don't understand why my team's work is a "blocker" to other team's projects when we get a ticket on the same day.  Some days, it's really overwhelming.  I don't need reminders of how backed up the ticket queue is either.  I know what work I need to do.

- It's hard to get a straight answer on procedures.  Ask 3 people, you will most likely get 3 completely different answers.  Some documentation is there but it's loosely organized.  It's up to all team members to maintain documentation.  I think it makes a mess and only confuses people.  

- Oracle is very strict with change management but so restrictive, it feels like we have one hand tied behind our backs to get the job done.