Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-12-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

I have yet to find a better deal
Pros: - Oracle consist of a lot of acquired startups which absolutely don't conform to the stuffy corporate image Oracle has
- incredible WLB
- above average pay
- legacy groups (DB, MySQL, Java) still have some of the brightest minds in the entire industry
- extremely large scale offers unique opportunities
- remote work
- company paid conferences, training, travel
- D&I is taken seriously
Cons: - Bureaucracy. Yes, every big company has it, and yes, it's worse at Oracle.
- volatility in the cloud org has impeded aspects of critical feature development, and it remains totally uncompetitive
- security are hamstrung by top-down corporate policies that make no sense
- "eat your own dogfood" applies here but Oracle internal products are awful
- no raises. dry promotions, dive & save offers come too late to retain talent