Company: Oracle
Date: 2010-12-30
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Stifling environment for developers who want to innovate
Pros: Highly profitable and stable
Good salary -- average for Silicon Valley
Good benefits -- probably below average for Silicon Valley
Cons: Extremely bureaucratic -- all decisions are made at top levels of the company
Can't get hardware -- many developers have resorted to buying their own hardware to replace 4 year old laptops/desktops
New ideas and approaches are actively discouraged
Engineering is not valued -- developers are purely an expense and drag on profitability