Oracle Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Great benefits and part of a large organization with jobs available if your willing to go after them.

Cons

Pay increases are not where they need to be for a company doing this well in the market place. Seems that ever since ORCL became a dividend based stock that management has had very little to reward employees. Pay increases may require that you come in from the outside to get what your really worth.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't undervalue the employees that you hired to deliver smart solutions. Job satisfaction is the balance of personal family life commitments, being excited about the work in front of you and money. I'd say all three are very equally important.

Pros

Thoughtful and caring work environment

Cons

The bureaucracy can slow down the process.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline processes

Pros

work life balance and good work environment

Cons

Less Salary than other local employers

Advice to Senior Management

Pay good salary to good employees

Pros

good work life balance and support for time off when needed
stability

Cons

lack of consistent bonus and mgmt reviews

Pros

Flexibility to grow and try new things

Cons

Pay and compensation, micro management

Advice to Senior Management

Reward the people who are getting the jobs done and not just upper management.

Pros

Solid company, good benefits, great products, good oppty

Cons

Weak vacation policy. Company is making TONs of $, doesn't seem like its really distributed fairly.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize your people more. Share the wealth. Give us some frig'n more vacation! 3 wks... that's unheard of!

Pros

Great Benefits, high flexibility, opportunities, positive cross team communications, strong executive leadership

Cons

Too driven, focused on specific

Pros

Pay, reputation, benefits are favorable at Oracle

Cons

Gun slinger mentality, politics, work-life balance not always favorable.

Advice to Senior Management

Training and career development can help produce more productive teams. Need a formalized mentor program.

Pros

They are clear about how thing are to be done and you must follow those procedures.

Cons

Took over from Sun - the culture is completely different. SUN was open and creative and allowed work to flow in that manner - Oracle is nothing like that and it drove many good people out.

Advice to Senior Management

Loosen up

Pros

Ability to work from home on occassion.
Decent health and dental benefits.

Cons

After achieving 5 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of personal time each year at StorageTek (26 years), my paid time off has been cut in half. Only 18 days of vacation per year maximum, and some holidays have been eliminated.

Annual reviews and pay raises are non-existent at Oracle. What you get paid when you started, or in my case, company bought (Sun Microsystems) is the pay you can expect for many years to come. I fully expect to never get a pay increase before I retire in 12 years.

Oracle runs thier businees with the fast food model. Hire people for cheap, never give them a pay raise, and give them incentives to not stay at the company too long. The vacation policy is such an incentive, you get the max 18 days after 3 years, thusly promoting the feeling that you are not wanted around after 7 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Someone talk to Larry and tell him to stop being so cheap.