Oracle Does Not Support Employee Growth - Anonymous employee Oracle Employee Review

3.0
6 Sept 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lower management is usually friendly toward directs. The initial salary is enough to get you to walk in the door. The ability to balance work/life is great and there are opportunities to work from home when needed.

Cons

Oracle management does no believe in talent development--there are some very basic education classes and beyond that nothing. The initial salary is often your final salary, so long term employment for non-sales is out of the question. This approach is counter intuitive as Oracle is always in a cycle of training new employees and/or retraining employees brought over through acquisition. It is readily apparent that Oracle has a formula whereby they calculate the value of an employee, expected rate of return and cost of training a new employee, thus allowing Oracle to essentially carve out the need for salary increases, bonus structures, etc.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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