Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-05-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Execute, Don't Strategize
Pros: Bright co-workers, decent pay, broad range of products translates to broad range of opportunities. If you are comfortable with top-down management hierarchies that recognize ability to execute, but discourage independent thinking, you can thrive here. There is room for creativity if you've demonstrated some technical chops.
Cons: Company strategy is tightly held by a handful of people at the top. To change direction in a company this size requires people that simply execute on what they are told, without questioning why. This discourages strategic thinking at all management layers, creating a culture of relatively blind obedience.