Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-10-03
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

A place to waste your life if you have no ambition or desire for meaningful work
Pros: If you luck out with a good manager in a department reasonably protected from upper-level politics, you can enjoy a relatively stress-free work experience for a few years. Excellent benefits. Always acquiring new companies, so there is a near-constant inflow of fresh blood, and most of them are people who would never choose to come here by their own will, so in a way that's a good thing that keeps the community varied.
Cons: The only innovation you are going to see is from buying other companies, which innovate up until they get bought and messed up. The politics at SVP level and above are ridiculous. As with most huge companies, there are constant reorganizations. Internal tools are antiquated and painful. There is very limited ability to use any external software - culture of choking on own dog food.