Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-01-30
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great work-life balance
Pros: As the title says, Oracle offers great work-life balance in general. Oracle is huge, with thousands of products, services and teams, which offers great mobility possibilities. Management is usually hands-on, friendly and helpful. Benefits are good, recently added RSU grants as alternative to Stock Options. HQ campus is great. Salaries for new hires have been improving a lot to support the growing cloud business.
Cons: Management has very limited decision making power when it comes to budget issues, including compensation and rewards. Salary hikes are slow, cash bonuses are rare and usually insignificant. Bureaucracy and politics sometimes get in the way as with any big company.