Company: Oracle
Date: 2010-09-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Excellent Vision and Very Well Managed
Pros: It is better to acquire than to be acquired.    The company is well managed.  It is very clear what is expected of employees, decisions are clear and direction is not changed too frequently nor do directions that are clearly wrong remain unchanged after enough time has passed to confirm that directions need to be modified.    People should join Oracle even if it is only to learn how a well managed company is run so they can translate that experience for use in other organizations.
Cons: Salary and raises low and should be higher to retain good people.  Technical innovation except in integration of products is not at a high level as Oracle currently relies on acquired companies to get the products it needs to be competitive.   Note that this is a management decision based on its view of the current state of the market and technology.  In the past Oracle internally developed nearly all of its technologies.