Oracle Reviews in Sydney, Australia Area

Pros

great people who are excellent at what they do
great benefits relating to healthcare especially
flexible work arrangements
not micromanaged

Cons

very procedural
siloed
difficult to know where to get answers
inflexible regarding customers and how they are treated
not good at handling acquisitions

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication with your staff
360 degree reviews needed
less favouritism
less boys club mentality
need to let staff make more decisions with more flexibility

Pros

Orace has great opportunities for carrer advancement.

The ability to work anywhere in the world is another advantage when working for a global organisation.

Oracle invests a lot of time and effort in training its employees, both from internal resources as well as externally, through sales training methodologies to management training.

Oracle do take their involvement with Corporate Social Responsibility fairly seriously and encourages staff to be involved as much as possible, this affords you the opportunity to help out in the community.

Cons

The inability of management to provide the tools required by the staff to to their jobs is a major hinderence when working at Oracle.

Due to the differring reporting lines and varying agendas of each business unit, it's very difficult to get a holistic pictur eof what Oracle are ever doing with respect to a specific client at any one point in time.

Advice to Senior Management

Find out what we need to do our jobs, then provide us with the best possible tools to do them

Pros

Easy money, good place to hide until retirement!

Cons

Too big, too slow, truly awful internal systems and software. For instance I worked abroad and had to submit all timesheets and expenses twice. Once for my home country and once for the 'billing' country. Everything outsourced to India, I accidentally submitted a timesheet twice, to get it reversed I had to get 7 approvals and supply the guy in india with the row_ids of the timesheets to delete directly on the database.

Advice to Senior Management

Shake some life into this cash rich dinosaur.

Pros

Some good technology acquisitions, although its not easy to see if or how they will be integrated.

Cons

Very focused on the Database. Culturally finds it difficult to accept that the sales process is very different form Database and addons, to most of what they have acquired in the middleware or application tiers.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to be more focused on your people instead of quarterly results. Need to understand the clients' business needs instead of trying to maximise license revenue, or using the "license police".