Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-09-27
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Swimming in Larry's shark tank
Pros: Good to have on your resume - its "Harvard" for the Database World. The flagship product, Oracle Enterprise Edition Relational Database System (RDBMS) is as rock-solid as a Mac truck. Oracle Apps only has a few competitors left: SAP and Salesforce.com. The headquarters has nice buildings - 6 round buildings around a lake - we called it "Lake Larry." Other Pros: good healthcare, subsidized food in cafeterias, good Gym, and going to training classes regularly was supported. Also even though working for Larry is tough, at least he knows how to make money and generate healthy profits, so the stock is more stable than a bank stock!
Cons: Larry's ultra-competitive personality trickles down and you either have to be a shark, or face getting eaten. Don't be surprised if you get trampled on by the next guy trying to look good for the boss. I had heard that managers were told to rank-order their employees and have the list ready at all times. They were also told to give 80% of their bonus pool to the top 20% of the people, and little or nothing to the rest. Certain individuals seem to do well with raises but most are left to languish with a few thousand dollars of what they came in at, even after many years.