Company: Oracle
Date: 2019-07-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Big company- easy come easy go
Pros: Pay was great.  Lots of free training opportunities.
Cons: Oracle is actually many smaller companies not related other than they are all software products.  Outside of the core Database company, they are held as separate entities that get treated like they are being held by an investment company.  Over 40% of the profit goes to the mother company making the individual "Global Business Units" run very skinny and have very little money for R&D, growth and talent investment.  They aggressively recruited me, paid to have my family relocated from Chicago to Atlanta, bought a new company during the first year I was there, changed directions due to this new company,  and laid off most of the folks in my role because we weren't part of the new direction.  Hadn't had a product manager for the product I was hired to sell for 8 months.  Like any giant company, you're just a number to them and if their whim changes, they lay off people in droves.