Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-01-17
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Was once a great place, bucking the downward trend. Now hampered by an exodus of talent and amateur middle management.
Pros: Oracle has a great strategy. One Red Stack makes sense.
Plentiful resource pool to pull from.
Foot soldiers are still leading the way.
Cons: Despite Oracle's strong strategic story, the fractional sales model means that there is no one communicating this message to customers.
Inflexible support model prevents new sales. No surprise that 50% of global revenues come from support renewals.
Amount of admin, spreadsheets and report creation is a huge time consumer.
Middle management offers no support and is mostly made up of recently promoted telesales managers.
Old boys network is strong and thriving.