Company: Oracle
Date: 2013-11-30
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Oracle has some of the smartest and most experienced software engineers in the industry.
Pros: Oracle is a very big company, with ~120K employees, so my experiences don't necessarily apply across the board. In my group - a technology development team at the heart of the company - we have flexible work hours, and flexibility with working at home as needed, Compensation is competitive, and very much loaded into the base salary. The primary goal is to remove compensation from the daily concerns of employees, and to provide long term stability.
Cons: The primary downside of working for Oracle are the mis-perceptions of outsiders, especially in the area of technology innovation. The perception of most people seems to be that Oracle is so big and "old" / legacy that it's not possible for us to be innovative, or disruptive, or to do anything but follow in the path of smaller, more nimble, more innovative startups etc. Nothing could be further from the truth, but it's "accepted wisdom" in most circles, even within Silicon Valley.