Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-02-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Steady professional advancement, lucky opportunities
Pros: Reasonable company, pleasant working environment.
I always felt like I had the opportunity to make a case for a project or an idea or to bring an argument forward. Almost always listened.
A company where entrepreneurial spirit is welcome - what is not explicitly forbidden is allowed.
A great company to be in IT. Lots to learn, lots of intelligent people around.
Cons: Quite dissuasive of changing country.
Salary slowly evolving (regardless of the rampant inflation in emerging countries) created odd situations where a newer colleague had almost double the salary just because arrived more recently?
No true HR involvement in career development - actually not a very structured career development.
Cost reductions and cutting exercises increasingly frustrating.
Company evolving from an engineer's one to bean counters and from a visionary technology creator to a next blazing tech whiz buyout administrator.