Oracle Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than a year

Pros – Oracle has a very nice gym, and there are lots of very experienced people to work with. The pace is slow, so if you are looking to spend more time on other interest or with family, Oracle is a great place to hang out.

Cons – Stupendous bureaucracy. Really. Process checks on top of process checks on top of process checks. It is not possible to be responsive to customer needs or competitive threats in this environment.

Many companies in Silicon Valley have an HR policy that basically boils down to "Not Oracle". After joining, I understand why. Oracle is very hierarchical and status-bound. You need to kindly ask assistants to talk to anyone VP-level or above. There are tables where you look up you pay grade to see when you can travel business class and whether you get an office or a cubicle.

There is no leadership: as a Director or VP you don't have any inside info on the agenda. You will get your best information from earnings calls.

Oh, and don't think you can escalate to senior management if someone isn't doing the best thing for the firm: you need to come with something to trade with.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire the 20000 low performers, and 20000 process enforcers who are watching them. Start leading and communicating. You are dead in the water!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oracle full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Oracle is a very large company and as such has decent benefits
- Despite what many report they do pay "well"
- If you are lazy this is a good place to hide and not have to work terribly hard

Cons – - Toxic culture
- Stiffing for innovators
- Company is run by bankers, not engineers
- Company values management over rank and file (e.g. bonus's paid to exec only during hard times)

Advice to Senior Management – Break up the super large organization into manageable pieces that can actually develop new software. Buying smaller companies and destroying them is not helping the staff or customers. This practice does help the stockholders (e.g. Larrry E) so I suspect it is not going change. However, other companies have shown that innovation can be profitable (salesforce) and it was only 15 years ago when Oracle could actually innovate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oracle full-time for more than a year

Pros – Resume Builder... but only if you're a glutton for punishment and stick it out a year.

Cons – Disorganization
Inefficiency
Zero training
Poor Management
Poor thought leadership
Copy or buy, don't innovate

Advice to Senior Management – Oracle is unsalvageable, turning that place around would require an act of God. There are very few talented mangers, the vast majority leave due to internal complications and all the red tape. Go work here if you want to be completely miserable and have no dreams.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oracle full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Plenty of employee parking. I never had to search for a space. Covered parking was also available, which was nice in the summer.

Cons – Too much in-fighting between groups. Extremely "political" (many decisions based on who-you-know instead of what-you-know.)

Every group I worked with at Oracle deeply felt that their group was considered "the bottom of the barrel." Every group believed that they were the less-favored group (engineering, marketing, legal, etc.)

Advice to Senior Management – Re-adjust your core values to take better care of your employees, then live by those values.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Salary and work at home benefit.

Cons – Politics and no respect for the engineers/ front line managers.
 Oracle has become an Integrator vs. an Innovator. RIF's are
common and done quietly

Advice to Senior Management – Practice what you preach ... Integrity
Culture and values are less than respectable.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Oracle full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Your Working for Oracle.... yu can work internationally and it is a great opportunity.

Cons – Lot's of Travel and long hours.... (this is Professional Services)

Advice to Senior Management – Read My Resume.... I would like to work you for again. Thanks

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lots of technology to work with

Cons – TONS of political crap, no formal review process, no career development, low competitive salaries, very upper management heavy, very tough to move within the company, groups work within their own groups and not across groups.

Advice to Senior Management – Embrace your employees as they are your #1 core competency

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – You can work from home and that's about it.
The only perk that is left is a nice gym as the company took away all the freebies including the soup from the kitchens!

Cons – - Good performance is not rewarded
- You have to quit Oracle and comeback for a salary increase
- Employees have not seen a eaise or bonus in years now while senior management pockets millions of dollars each year in bonuses and salaries.
- No romotions for employees to keep them in a lower pay brackets!
- The company abuses employees in the USA so they can quit on their own and be replaced by resources in India

Advice to Senior Management – Management should reward talent to get innovation. Maybe Oracle does not have to buy so many innovative companies if they paid their own employees for innovation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Oracle full-time

Pros – Ability to work from home is encouraged

Cons – Lost vacation days, minimum holidays, 'self-service' is pitiful and gives a user no direction, after acquisition EVERYTHING is turned upside down - new applications, new methodologies, no good processes kept

Advice to Senior Management – Don't try to hammer square pegs into a round hole.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Oracle full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – There is a large product portfolio and you do not have to know the products to make good money. All that is required is that you need to get a good territory and you need to call on purchasing and IT. There are no caps in the ROE (Rules of Engagement), Oracle's term for compensation plan. However, see below.

Cons – Oracle will frequently choose not to pay you if you blow out your numbers. If you do not like it, you can sue them. Oracle will decide after the fact, whether they want to pay you. It does not matter if this is legal in your state. They are bold, they play the numbers, they know the downsides to doing this, they do it all the time, and they benefit handsomely. If you sue, your contract requires arbitration which generally favors the Oracle because the arbitrator is paid by the company and they want repeat business. (Oracle does not get to choose the arbitrator). Cases will take 2 or more years and legal fees are very expensive.

They frequently delay payment as well, while they think it over.

Advice to Senior Management – Do unto others as you would have done to yourself.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend