Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-10-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Where marketing careers go to die
Pros: - flexible about work location
Cons: - the culture flows downhill.  so arrogant jerks abound throughout the organization, and the higher you go in the org, the bigger the egos and arrogance level.  
- marketing is not valued by C-level execs
- marketing is based on executive whim and point tactics, with no strategy behind it.
- senior management provides NO direction about goals, expectations, job responsibilities.
- career advancement is almost nonexistent, and based on brown nosing ability, not talent, contribution, delivered results, or demonstrated skills.
- HR openly admits that if you've been at Oracle longer than 3 years, you are compensated under market rate. 
- raises are almost nonexistent, and bonuses are even more scarce, even when the company is making record profits.  ALL raise and bonus pool goes to senior management, with almost NOTHING trickling down below a VP level.
- nasty politics make nice people do weird things, so you can trust no one.
- there are no HR processes in place, so don't expect to have clear goals or measurement, and good luck getting any sort of feedback on performance, annual goals.  
- no training for management, so there are people at upper levels who are bullies and tyrants. And there is no process to provide input about your manager because they don't have a 360 talent review process.