Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-04-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Staff Consultant
Pros: There are not many benefits. The only one I can list is the people. There are so many smart and talented people you get the chance to work with.
Cons: - No mentorship program: there is no one to help guide you down the career path you want to pursue or help explore different paths. Therefore, you're stuck doing one job and you may be unhappy with no one to help guide you to a different path within the company or group
- No recognition: there is no recognition or feedback by management if you are doing your job well or not. Therefore, if you're doing a good/bad job, no one is telling you so you keep doing what you're doing
- No progress reviews: there is no meetings with your manager or management to inform you what you are doing well and what you need to work on. Therefore, you have no way of knowing the areas you need to improve on professionally
- Availability to resources: there's not many people to ask for help when you need help. When you do reach out, people often blow off your calls or don't answer emails. Therefore, you're stuck researching for a question that may take a minute to answer but it may take 2-3 days.
- Work hours: Some employees are eligible for OT. However, OT doesn't mean anything. Management enforces this policy heavily and if you have to work 40+ hours a week, you have to tell management and since they don't want to pay you, they will lay out your days and weeks for you, ensuring you won't work over 40 hours. This results in extreme micro managing or working 40+ hours without anyone knowing (which is against policy).
- Management doesn't care about their employees at all. We are just bodies to them and whenever someone leaves for a new job, they don't reach out and ask what they can do better to improve the practice. They just hire new people, thinking that will solve the problem.
- No compensation benefits: No yearly raises or bonuses. Therefore, with the cost of living increasing every year/inflation, you get a pay decrease since there's no raises/bonuses.