Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-02-28
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

No Respect for Employees
Pros: I can't really think of anything. Some groups might have good immediate management.
Cons: Oracle has so many problems, I don't know where to start. They don't express their appreciation for employees. Raises are very rare.

The hiring process at Oracle is impossible. All new-hires go through the CEO's offices and can take months. This means that only the least-employable people get hired. In addition, the company likes to hire new-college grads and pay them more than existing engineers. They tend to stay for 2 years, get lots of coaching from senior engineers, and then leave for greener fields. This leaves frustrated, underpaid engineers behind.

I had faith in the upper management's ability to look at the long-term goals. This ended when Oracle killed off Solaris and Sparc development. They have some idea of focusing on the cloud, but killed the only differentiation they had. Now they will be racing Amazon and Google to the bottom on Cloud offerings. I was particularly amused that they killed Sparc development right before Meltdown and Spectre undercut Intel/AMD.