Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-04-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Not great, not terrible
Pros: -  Flexibility,
- Good work place environment
- This could be seen as good or bad, workload isn't stimulating or challenging but it allows you the freedom to develop other skills / free time.
- Micro-managing isn't part of the company culture or identity, this is a big plus for me.
Cons: - Your salary goes to Oracle to die. There are no annual reviews, no hikes, your starting salary will remain the same for years and years until you decide to leave. They know this, and they're okay with this. I've been told by Directors that Oracle is a learning experience, and you should take that experience elsewhere to get a pay rise. This should be unacceptable, but it's the not-so-secret secret that everyone knows and begrudgingly accepts.
- The freedom you enjoy to develop yourself and how you develop your work, as well as the great environment this creates, which is very important, is also used against you because upper management makes it clear it's their strategy to justify not increasing salaries.
- Because of this, there's some upward mobility because tenured people will leave sooner or later but there's also a big waiting list. If you've got the talent but there's people who have been there for half a decade, waiting for a chance, then tough luck, get in line. There's no clear career path and there's no intention for you to have one.
- HR doesn't exist, unless things get serious. You will never have contact with an HR representative in your tenure at Oracle, barring the starting period, and you should be thankful if you don't because HR is in place to protect the company and only the company.
- Upper management is an absolute old boy's club, completely out of touch. Their strategies are not working for many years now and Oracle is running out of small, profitable companies to buy. It is dying a slow death and they won't be able to afford losing tenured people in the future, or stop ignoring said acquisitions and customers.