Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-11-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Life in Oracle
Pros: - if you have a good manager then you are a lucky one, as in any company.
- Some bonuses for job well done (not monthly)
- meal tickets
- Health insurance
- Oracle employees discounts for some stores/ fitness
- Free platforms to be able to learn
Cons: - salaries do not get raised very often and if they do very little (10% maximum in 2 years). some never did.
- The vacation days are not paid out only if you leave, in rest you are obligated to take them otherwise they get deleted.
- year end/ Christmas bonuses are applicable only for the countries which are obligated by law, in Romania they do not apply.
- the bonuses for job well done , are taxable so from the amount provided actually you receive less even though you have spent more as you need to provide receipts. 
- you do not have any other allowances other than the salary itself, only if you are upper management or you work with with other regions due to late working hours.
- you mainly do overtime to be able to get your tasks done, but if you submit overtime it is not very appreciated ("you are not well organized")even if you do the tasks in some cases for 2-3 people.
- Management prefers to hire people which are "Yes Mam" 
- Some Managers are known for Micro managing . 
- some employees are afraid to speak up due to managers action afterwards. even if it is a problem raised by the employees to the HR regarding a manager nobody acts upon the complains (even in exit forms).
- Nobody asks why people leave so frequently (less than 2 years) - also, nobody cares.
- Some Managers get promoted on the work of their directs or take responsibility as their own accomplishment even if they did not get implicated at all, sometimes even made it harder on their directs to manage that project (as not worthy)...while the directs..you guessed it, get nothing.
- in-house trainings made by people which have no people skills, or are true trainers.