Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-01-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Always wondered what it is like to work for a megacorp
Pros: The health benefits are very good
Cons: Pay is nowhere near the industry average, recurring furloughs at Christmas, a "write nothing down" culture of secrecy and nondisclosure, paltry salary adjustments with no ties to performance evals when salaries aren't frozen, recurring waves of layoffs, a hugely management-heavy organization that often has managers with only 2 reports, directors with one reporting manager, ranks when they are thinned never touch management but management's salary overhead cripples product line and division performance, can never backfill positions vacated by people quitting, company pursuing a strong and accelerating off-shoring employment model, problem managers are never accounted or dealt with, corporate acquisitions are a driver of corporate sales by which the acquired company must rebase all internal and product line systems to be "solid red" meaning All-Oracle even in areas Oracle is not competitive and all these oracle equipment and licenses must be purchased at industry rates, the most unequal and secretive profit and reward sharing company I have worked with in my 20 years in the industry.  I could go on but I've said enough.  If this all sounds good to you, hey get signed on today.