Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-02-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Empire Building
Pros: Oracle is undeniably a market leader with a fierce appetite to continue to grow and remain a leading driver in the transformation of the technology marketplace to the cloud-based model.  Oracle is leveraging it's vast resources to build viable solutions for any and all cloud plays, large and small from IASS, to PAAS to SAAS to full-stack solutions.
As an Oracle employee, your career is in your own hands; there are ample opportunities to  learn and grow if you are willing to invest the time and take the initiative.  Oracle provides a wide range of training and career development resources, but it is all self-service; it's up you you to navigate the vast Oracle world and make sense of it.  I have worked with many exceptional people here at Oracle and most colleagues are eager to help and work together toward common goals.  Oracle can afford to offer competitive compensation and offers a better than average benefits package.
Cons: Oracle has grown relentlessly by acquisition for years so it seems there's always something new to integrate and adapt to as they continue to assimilate everything in their path.  Oracle is aggressively shifting from on prem hardware and software to The Cloud and any transition that significant is disruptive.  Constant growth and change in the past few years has come with the continual spectre of RIFs and Reorgs. Oracle is very process driven so almost everything has to follow format and even the smallest exceptions requires executive approval.  On the other hand integration of new acquisitions rarely smooth, so frustration can build when process and progress collide.