Oracle a great place to work if you're in the right team. - Director Oracle Employee Review

3.0
14 Jul 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Oracle offers excellent benefits including: life, accident, medical, vision, dental and LTD insurance; discounts at many retailers and with most auto manufactures. Oracle allows teleworking within many organizations. It is generally well inclined towards maintaining a positive work/life balance by allowing flexible work hours depending on role and a substantial allocation of vacation time, starting with 3 weeks and moving up to 4.5 weeks after 3 years of service. Additionally Oracle provides up to $6000 annually in tuition reimbursement for those seeking college degrees relevant to their jobs roles. Depending on the organization, Oracle can be a very positive place to work with exposure to excellent peers and management. The wealth of industry experience is very broad and it's a pleasure working with professionals that really know their stuff. Many teams have a great deal of autonomy and are able to do things their own way as long as the job gets done.

Cons

Oracle is very slow to change at a fundamental level. Despite the many acquisitions, the culture has changed very little and in most cases it has changed for the worse. There is very little opportunity for career growth for most management as the majority of new roles appear to go to senior and executive level management from each of the acquisitions. There is a major problem with the "out of sight out of mind" mentality, as the vast majority of promotions that do occur tend to happen to staff and managers based at HQ. There's also many "Little Larrys" at Oracle, executives who tend to micro manage to a level so far beneath their station that it often gums up the works. There's also a lot of vaporware internally within Oracle in terms of projects and management frameworks that have failed to deliver anything of real value to internal employees. There are many little empires within Oracle, which tend to waste resources through significant redundancy of work that could be done far more efficiently in a shared environment.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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