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      Oracle Principal Software Developer reviews

      3.4

      52% would recommend to a friend

      (761 total reviews)

      Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

      36% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Principal Software Developer employees have rated Oracle with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 761 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Oracle is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      761 reviews
      3.0
      Sep 6, 2017

      Huge, bureaucratic company, great at team level

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I had a great time working with the former Sun Microsystems part that Oracle Corporation acquired in 2008. Specifically working on the Solaris kernel. This part I like--a lot. I worked with one of the best teams of people in terms of talent and being part of a cooperative, fun team. Pay is good--or at least competitive. Being a big company gives many opportunities to look around elsewhere if you don't like what you are doing now. The top-management are competitive and have business smarts (if not always technical smarts).

      Cons

      Huge bureaucratic company with many processes to slow productive work down. The corporate level seems hostile to cutting-edge technology and research. Too many layoffs--they seem to perfer to layoff than reassign people. My part of the company, former Sun Microsystems/Solaris/SPARC, is now gutted and doesn't really exist any longer except for a skeleton crew for sustaining support.

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