Company: Oracle
Date: 2008-06-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

"Great money, but go into it with your eyes wide open"
Pros: The money is very difficult to beat, and some of your peers will be the smartest people in the marketplace and will become lifelong colleagues.
Cons: Oracle is not a work-life balance place.  Plan on working non-stop while you are there - that is both a strength and a weakness of the company.  Typically they give 2-3 people the same job and see who is standing at the end of the quarter.  The person standing gets to keep the job for the next quarter.  In addition, the ethics of this organization are both good in pockets and tremendously bad.  There are managers on the government side doing business in such a manner as to be shocking.  If you want to have an ethical compass, I would make sure you have it well in place before you work at Oracle.