Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-08-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Good company with awesome benefits
Pros: This review is based on my experience with Oracle Consulting. Other departments may vary:
- Wonderful, comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunity to work remote if the client allows it.
- Diverse product offering means you'll never get bored doing the same thing.
- Being the top database and database application company means Oracle isn't going under anytime soon.
- Free Oracle University training (as long as your cost center pays for it).
- Decent work / life balance if you get onto a project with competent project management.
- Very progressive company with regards to corporate culture and values.
Cons: Again, cons are based on my experience at Oracle Consulting. Sales, marketing, product development, etc experiences will vary:
- Your resource manager will only see / talk to you once a year, and they are the ones responsible for your performance review. Not good.
- Pay is extremely low when compared to other Oracle development / consulting jobs in the industry.
- Layoffs almost every quarter. If you find yourself in between projects, expect a severance package in the mail.
- Performance reviews are actually not based on performance, but dictated by upper management. This creates an environment of favoritism.
- Senior management in consulting had been in disarray while I was there, resulting in low morale.
- Oracle Consulting is a revolving door and Oracle is turning into a training house for other companies.
- Promotions / raises take forever. Every year they have a new excuse as to why they can't promote you.