Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-07-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Bureaucracy slows everything down
Pros: - Stable, well known company which owns a long list of technologies from CPU, hardware, OSes, databases, Java to cloud services. You may find a lot of things to learn (assuming you can  use that in your net job, hopefully)
- Oracle will be a good company if you want to stay with one company for a long time.
Cons: - Oracle is probably on the top rank among Silicon Valley companies by scale and depth of bureaucracy. You would be told you cannot request a SSL cert without a DNS record. You cannot get production access without going through 5 layers of approvals. There are just too many stakeholders for a single, simple decision. 
- Oracle is driven by sales priorities that is often conflicting for the same group of people. Resulted in a lot of context switching and juggling, and war rooms!
- Oracle loves spreadsheets. Not much is managed by automation and tools and viewable/searchable by everyone. You have to keep many things on emails, notepad, wiki, spreadsheet, even that is your server list. 
If you come from 1,000-people company, Oracle has 500 x bureaucracy. If you come from 10,000-people company, you will see 20x bureaucracy.