Company: Oracle
Date: 2014-07-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Happy Place to work, but with limited career progression and don't a pay rise.
Pros: Solid Technology, leader in nearly all technology areas.  Plenty to keep you busy and training is first class.  Bright people and I've really enjoyed my 17 years at Oracle.   Recent focus on CLoud computing is a little late but they are making strong acquisitions in order to catch up fast.
Cons: The normal big company issues, mostly political issues.  Lots of Sales/Presales doing similar customer engagement but overlap is inevitable leading to duplication.  Most of the time you feel like the pawn in someone elses jam for promotion.  Manager are only thinking about themselves rather than you.  Once you've reached a certain level and don't want to go into management then you are limited to which jobs are available to you.  People plateau and coast along and Oracle does nothing to make it easy to move around.   Recent focus on career development is a ploy to get rid of the people that don't progress.   Lots of people leaving for Saleforce.com.   No pay rise for the past 5 years.