Company: Oracle
Date: 2020-01-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Probably great in some areas, but not in Cloud Operations
Pros: There's a culture of collaboration and skill sharing that can only be called 'generous'; I worked with a lot of very talented and kind people. I had a lot of leeway as an IT consultant, which effectively meant 'DevOps' with a heavy emphasis on the 'Ops' part, in PaaS Cloud Operations, and I could more or less set my own schedule as long as the work got done.
Cons: I really take issue with their claim of interest in one's professional development. Aside from throwing people colorful HR e-mails with links to Oracle University, there was no real effort to cultivate me, and I worked there for 4.5 years with one review, one performance-based raise, and one cost-of-living adjustment. The rhetoric was that there would be a performance review annually, but my team got hot-potatoed around so often that the performance process never stabilized before we got bounced again. Due to execs not really knowing how to compete with established cloud providers, it seemed like there was a lot of flailing around, throwing stuff at the wall to see if it would stick, and when something didn't, it was the frontline folks who got RIF'ed. The way the switch from OPC to OCI was handled was mismanagement, pure and simple.