Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-07-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great Tech / Terrible Management
Pros: For someone starting off in IT - this is the mother lode!  You will get lots of training and experience and meet some wonderful people.
Oracle has every IT product a company needs - from their best in class ERP and EPM applications to Middleware and BI to the most successful (and ubiquitous) database in the world, all powered by some of the most advanced hardware, tuned to provide superior computing results, regardless of what is being run.  Did I mention Big Data - yep.  Security Management - tick. Fully integrated Mobile apps development - that too.  And you want it in the Cloud - you've hit the jackpot.  Oracle is your one stop shop - literally!
Cons: But try to get someone to help you put all those pieces together in a complete, one vendor solution and it won't happen - unless you're the size of the US Dept of Defense or Tesco.  Why?  Because each product category is its own pillar and the sales teams don't play well with each other because they're compensation is primarily tied to their own product set.  This dynamic creates lots of confusion and wasted time.  It's easier to go to the niche players and get them to work together than it is to get Oracle Apps (which is broken up into 3 pillars, ERP/EPM, HCM and CRM) to work with the Middleware team (which includes Mobile and BI among the more traditional products in this category).  This is a deal killer – which is why the sales reps avoid cross pillar deals like the plague – unless you’re – but I’ve already said that. 
Oh – and don’t ask for a raise. They don’t give them, not cost of living, not promotional.  Imagine – you get a promotion to Senior Manager and a raise is not part of the deal.  You've been recognized for your expertise, but you just aren't worth a raise in salary.  Leaving and coming back is the only way to change your salary.  Which is why so many people have been at Oracle and returned years later.