Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-10-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Not an ideal place to stick around. For ambitious people it is a real dampener!
Pros: Access to plenty  of resources. Can learn a lot in the free time. Excellent work life balance. Good place to kick start the career - and then of course move out !
Cons: Stagnated growth. Inefficient management. Really not the best place for the engineers any more, as it was 5-6 years back. Running into a service mode. Drifted largely in terms of employee quality, culture, standard when compared to its competitors. Interestingly the Oracle India management themselves compare Oracle with service companies but not with the product bigwigs. HR does an equally awful job in hiring talents. Super skilled people will feel constricted by the mediocrity around. Off late focused on hiring local people, which is decreasing diversity, and creating a group of inefficient people. Sad to see the sad gradual downfall of a company that I adored. A good representation of the downfall in its standard can be depicted by the fact that you can really count on your fingertips the no of fresher engineers hired from elite schools are retained in the company - probably <5%, which is horrible.