Great place to work; slow promotion - Senior Director of Engineering Oracle Employee Review

4.0
Oct 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very smart people. Lots of support for new ideas. Beauracracy is manageable, not onerous. Interesting projects to work on and you can have a big impact on revenue. Actual utilization of your software is quite low; enterprise software - including cloud - requires a lot of integration and configuration, which takes customers a long time to do, because they often rely on consultants. Easy to form strong relationships, and you can have an outsize impact if you bring energy to the position. If you are a *technical* manager you can be very successful. If you are just a manager-manager, your progress will be limited.

Cons

For better or worse, literally every small detail - down to the smallest purchase - must be approved by the president, which means you often have to present status and progress to the president multiple times during development. Projects aren't "approved", but rather "approved for now with further reviews at regular intervals where your project may be summarily cancelled if you don't demonstrate a good plan".

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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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