Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-01-01
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

A miniscule cog in a massively huge corporate machine
Pros: *Great colleagues
*Flexible work environment (working from home, shifted hours)
*Flexible benefits (purchase extra vacation days, healthcare levels etc)
*There is a bonus scheme but of course varies depending on if you are in sales or support
Cons: *Too much process for customer and support engineer to overcome to work effectively together
*Engineers constantly pushed to "do more with less"
*Accountability constantly being pushed down to those working "at ground level"
*Virtual training classes promoted over classroom training
*Profit more important than technological innovation
*"Self service" culture endemic, IT support, HR, Personnel services etc. driven through anonymous web portals. A faceless experience for both employee and customer IMHO
*The work-from-home policy not 'managed' such that office-social-contact is critically impaired
*Limited career progression. A combination of limited positions available and process targeted management which means that a manager does not have the time or the inclination to help with employee programs such as 'mentoring' or 'professional development'. 
*The emphasis appears to be to allow good talent to leave rather than to investigate if they can be encouraged to stay
*"Tick box" culture widespread presumable because the company is so huge that they need to keep account of things somehow