Best place for no learning and settled mindset - Principal Applications Engineer Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Dec 26, 2023
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Pros

If you are mid level professional planning to move to settled and family lifestyle organisation this is for you. Less work stress Good place for self learner Many low salary professionals use oracle as a medium to get good package then work for sometime later go to high paid companies. No timesheet monitoring. Campus life is usually better than other locations

Cons

All the managers have company stocks and work for organisation atleast 15 to 20+. Settled mindset and not much of fire wrt work. Loves to blabber about their families and kids.You are an alien if you are bachelor. Partiality based on no of years you are in team. Technologically backward. You cannot clear interviews if you work on oracle products. IIIT, IIT and NITs and BITS better to avoid joining here waste starting years of your career. Anyway you will quit after 2 years. Not easy to promote to managers because existing one won’t move out and they kind of wait for retirement or to get fired for good bonus. Technical side you can grow till IC4 or maybe IC5. Focal cycle is not followed strictly and employees never know if HQ management gives focal or not. On average you need to wait for 2.5 years to get promotion. Roles like project lead is just for name sake you will never learn how project leader should or never get a chance to lead the team.

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5.0
Apr 13, 2026
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Pros

awful compay forced into qa as a new grad do not work here

Cons

awful place to work as a new grad these people do not care about your career growth

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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