Layoffs, No career growth and no hikes! - Principal Applications Engineer Oracle Employee Review

2.0
9 Jun 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1) Good work life balance and Work from home option. 2) Flexible timings 3) Good company for Managers and Senior roles only.

Cons

1) Usually no hikes, you never know when you will get a hike, even if you get it will be a single digit hike only. They pay you good when they release offer after that you don't see any hikes. 2) No career growth at all and no learning curve. 3) If you are some one who want to be abreast with the technologies, never join this company. You will get stupid work like bug fixing and production support tasks only as most of their products are very old and long running projects. For developers there is no good work at all and they will put you in multiple products and ask you to work and expect a lot. 4) No one cares about the employee including your manager, you even don't know about your HR. HR is for the name sake and he/she won't be in touch with you at all. If there is any issue, you can't even raise your voice since there is no transparency in the company. 5) They acquire companies like anything, when they feel like no revenue from the GBU, they simply layoff the people. 6) No clear road maps on the products and business. Employee will never understand what is the career growth for him.

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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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