Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-06-29
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Good and bad
Pros: Oracle paid a good wage coming in, but only one raise in seven years. Benefits are good. Good health insurance, dental, eye, and 401k. My group was a great group of people to work with.  I was there for 7 years.   I got to work from home.
Cons: I don't know where to begin here. Upper management does not listen to their techs. They only care about money and how much something will cost, rather than what will best do the job.  They force you to use inferior products rather than use what's best for the task.  They rather waste money on unnecessary projects rather than mission critical systems.  They were out of contractual compliance with customers and didn't care.  Cloud groups don't know what they want to do. We started down one path, stopped, went down another path and then stopped, to go down yet another path.  Money was wasted by moving offices about every year.  Raises don't exist. I only received one raise in 7 years despite outstanding reviews.  Review process does not have any bearing on monetary rewards for some reason.  Jobs are being shipped over to India and Philippines.   They will hire 5-6 India staff before hiring one US staff.  They expect employees to work themselves into the ground, but don't want to pay them what they're worth.   They're top heavy and spend money on hiring directors and managers, but not on people who actual perform the work. Then they will swamp you with projects expecting to get everything done in an insanely short time.  My project was given to India staff and I was laid off.  And you won't get warning about getting laid off. They tell you and you're done in that instant. No time to wrap any projects up or handoff items to other peoples.