Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-09-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

One word: Inertia
Pros: Oracle has some of the deepest established user base in the IT industry, which allows them to lean on their "tried and true" solutions to support innovations elsewhere.  Earnestly consultative  and thoughtful approach to customer solutions.  Very good work/life balance equation, remote work is accepted and even encouraged.  Competitive, if not progressive, benefits package.  Salaries are comparable to industry standard.  Management gets autonomous ownership of their line of business but also is held to task for its performance.  Overtime for certain IC positions is a unique proposition in this field.
Cons: Very poor internal advancement prospects.  Overly bureaucratic management structure.  Information discovery is labor intensive and heavily relies on tribal knowledge.  Sales teams are constantly waging turf wars in ostensibly cooperative ventures.  Product roadmap is overly reliant on "cloud-ifying" existing solutions which cover neither existing on-premise solutions in terms of capabilities, nor new solutions in terms of architecture.