Company: Oracle
Date: 2008-06-21
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Good company, but HR could be refined in a big way
Pros: Oracle always leading
Aggressive culture
Big company benefits
Surrounded by smart people
Upper management has their act together
Sales organization is world class
Great gym if  you have the time to use it
Cons: HR is disorganized - Appraisal, bonus, stock all on different cycles so cannot link together
Always cost cutting to meet margins.  
Although you can do more with less in US, emphasis is to hire in lower cost areas to save money, when you are really making the US employees work twice as hard to manage local and abroad resources
Top down approach.  Less innovation from the bottom up.  A hierarchy driven culture.