Great work/life balance, poor management, awful resources - Consulting Technical Manager Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Dec 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great work life balance. You can work from home when not traveling to customers and most managers will allow you to take time off when needed to take care of personal affairs. There are rare cases when you need to do overtime or weekend work and those only happen during customer cutovers. The benefits are good but they are pretty standard and worse than other tech giants in the bay area.

Cons

The only way to get a raise is to come with a competing offer. There are piles of dead wood in my group and nobody is terminated. I am in the company for over 7 years and have seen only one person getting fired and because that person did outperform for 5 years! The promotions happen to make you happy with a higher title, but that does not mean more responsibility and neither salary raises. The executives get the raises and you do not. The bonus is a big chunk of your pay but the bonus pool gets underfunded ALWAYS. If you move from level 1 to level 2 (for example) your bonus increases from 15% to 20%, but your salary does not increase but management makes you think this is a 5% bump on your salary. They use the "dive and save" strategy and they will only bump your salary if you have an offer in hands.

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Cons

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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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