Way too much Cloud churn and zero culture or creativity - Anonymous employee Oracle Employee Review

1.0
Sep 5, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work is nice, but may be going away.

Cons

Mgmt is rudderless and visionless especially in the Cloud space. Former CEO was way too late to the cloud game, so playing catchup to try to even be in the conversation, but still not in the top 3. So much churn. Time and effort are not appreciated here and environments are uninspired and very dictatorial. Favors low cost inexperienced labor over experience. Not a collaborative environment-everyone keeps their share of the pie. Pay raises are not aligned with performance or promotion-multiple dry promotions. Everyone is afraid to develop creative solutions for fear of mgmt shooting them down before even understanding the solution.

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Pros

It is very team dependent, but at least my team had great work life balance and good culture. It was easy to take time off, work was meaningful and not too stressful.

Cons

Work from home is discouraged, little to no pay increases yearly, yearly layoffs and stack ranking.

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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