Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-07-18
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Great, Good, Bad, Awful. Don't stay too long at Oracle or it will crush your mind, your soul, your spirits!
Pros: A good company to learn Oracle-only technologies. But the longer you stay there the worst it will be...
Cons: - Promotions are based on "performance reviews" that mean nothing to your manager if you don't have a good relationship with him/her. You can have a 5 for several reviews and still go nowhere career wise.
- There are 7-9 levels of management above your position, which translates to a nightmare when anyone tries to do anything innovative or even beneficial to the company. It takes months to get anything approved, implemented, and tested, from IT to dev.