Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-02-27
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great opportunities, Bad pay
Pros: Bright people, can-do culture, constant change and growth, opportunity for advancement.  Oracle keeps acquiring new companies and growing into new markets which ensures job security for established employees and a culture of change and growth.
Cons: Poor compensation (low pay increases and small/$0 bonuses). Oracle's policy allows management to hire new employees at market salaries but does not allow Oracle employees to fill those positions at equivalent salaries if that means giving a current employee a raise.  The only way to really get paid is to leave and return.
Top-down decision making is a mixed blessing.  Decisions do get made and there is not a committee culture but often decisions are made in a vacuum by uninformed executives.