Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-02-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Stability that comes with a price...
Pros: It's possible to build a fulfilling career at Oracle where the company's financial stability can provide opportunities to innovate and try new things.  I've worked with great people and great leaders up to the VP level.  In my group bonuses have generally been consistent.  Often times it feels like I am working for a very well-funded start up.
Cons: While bonuses can be good, they can also be significantly impacted by factors outside of our direct control, so even when you're doing everything right and having significant impact on the business, the criteria can be so far removed from your influence that you can be left feeling powerless.  Similarly, although there is a meaningful effort in play to improve talent management across the company, the impact of these efforts takes too long to be felt among the employees, leading to lower morale and, once more, lack of control over one's destiny.  You go through a process, develop objectives, work with your managers and then find that things move so slowly and without meaningful criteria for advancement or promotion that what starts as a positive, hopeful experience results in a negative outcome.  Oracle is slow to recognize the need to provide salary increases and promotions.  This makes it difficult to retain good people.