Crushes your dreams. Way too many internal politics. Management is very short sighted. - Technical Support Engineer Oracle Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2014
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Pros

You may have a good starting salary if you negotiate well. You'd better have some experience under your belt and if you meet the job criteria you will almost be placed to a position in accordance with your age/years of earlier experience. Good place to just have that job until you retire. Nobody will fire you. Flexibility in taking vacations.

Cons

No job raises. For years, or way lower than inflation. No work at home policy in support anymore. Personal growth is not an important factor for trainings selection. Selected trainings have to be useful to the current role. Many politics. There is many times a big difference between what is said by management and what it is done. They don't walk and talk. Weak leadership, at lease on the lower levels of management. Constantly solving issues just to get to see another day. Lack real vision. Everyone is striving to manage to really reach customer expectations and engage in collaborative efforts to meet the deadlines and to put our customers first. Truth: many words with no real meaning. Engineers have quite large workloads and many are complaining, but this situation is in accordance with the company policy, judging by the lack of headcount increase in the teams where workload has been a challenge for quite a while.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Oct 21, 2014
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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