Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-11-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Doesn't seem to care about employees or helping them get things done
Pros: There are a lot of smart, good people working here.  Plus, Oracle's business spans a lot of areas, giving you a lot of opportunity to potentially contribute.
Cons: I have never been at a company that made day-to-day productivity so difficult.  Internal tools don't work, support is miserable, and intranet resources are disorganized.  Also, internal bureaucracy is staggering.  And I say that as a former employee of Microsoft.

Management seems perfectly willing to chip away at benefits in search of a bottom line.  As other companies are expanding parental leave rights, Oracle still has no paternity leave.  They doubled healthcare deductibles last year.  And most recently, they essentially furloughed employees over the holidays in an attempt to tweak quarterly earnings.  Also, I didn't even stay there long enough to go through a review cycle, but word on the street was that raises/bonuses were virtually non-existent.

Oracle is literally the worst company I have worked for, and that's especially frustrating because there _are_ a lot of good people there.  It's problems are with management and corporate structure.  Larry Ellison is not a good guy, and I really do think that trickles down into the rest of the corporate culture.