Company: Oracle
Date: 2011-02-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

It's a job and nothing more.
Pros: Ability to work from home on occassion.
Decent health and dental benefits.
Cons: After achieving 5 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time each year at StorageTek (26 years), my paid time off has been cut in half. Only 18 days of vacation per year maximum, and some holidays have been eliminated.

Annual reviews and pay raises are non-existent at Oracle. What you get paid when you started, or in my case, company bought (Sun Microsystems) is the pay you can expect for many years to come. I fully expect to never get a pay increase before I retire in 12 years.

Oracle runs thier businees with the fast food model. Hire people for cheap, never give them a pay raise, and give them incentives to not stay at the company too long. The vacation policy is such an incentive, you get the max 18 days after 3 years, thusly promoting the feeling that you are not wanted around after 7 years.