Not a place to develop career path, and hard to see career progression. It's a giant company with lots of bureaucracy - Principal Consultant Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Jan 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of products trainings and soft skill training, but you need to know your way to register those trainings yourself. No HR or managers will help you in skill development. A great place to learn different Oracle products but you need to self motivate to learn those products and technology.

Cons

Too many products which are not well integrated within the stacks and the work wise is quite silo. If you are good at one thing, you will always be assigned for those roles instead of moving to new challenges as everyone is looking for an expert in the area. Only when the product is end of life, you are forced to move to different products skill sets. Does not care of what do you want, more on what can you be billed to the customer.

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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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