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      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (59,994 total reviews)

      Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

      41% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Senior management

      Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 59,994 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oracle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      60K reviews
      2.0
      Nov 3, 2014

      Less than desirable

      Sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Freedom, selling top products in their category

      Cons

      place to go where people hide and have an incredibly bad attitude towards one another. the opposite of working on a team

      3.0
      Sep 17, 2014

      Could be a decent company depending on what your priorities are

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      In my team I have great work life balance. There are plenty of offices all around the country so you can work remotely from other offices if management approves. The engineering peers are very pleasant to deal with.

      Cons

      There are plenty of teams which have high stress jobs. You don't tend to find many young professionals here because of the extremely poor bonuses and hikes (sometimes zero irrespective of performance) once you are hired. Most people stay because they have been in Oracle for 10+ years and have gotten comfortable doing what they do. Hikes are not tied to promotion so I have been promoted thrice but my pay has kind of remained same in the past six years. Most new hires would be paid much higher than me now.

      2.0
      Jul 7, 2014

      Lack of direction; lack of identity; lack of vision;

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are just a few good engineers at Oracle. Occasionally you'd see a pocket of 1-2 good engineers in a team of 20+.

      Cons

      As it is made up of many companies, there is big disintegration. No culture per se. Cronyism and incompetency are rampant at Oracle. Disillusionment. The smart people seem to quit as soon as Oracle acquires a company. Smart people seem to be deliberately not hired. Friends and inexperienced people are welcome at Oracle. Pro-activity, natural leadership, experience doesn't seem to be encouraged or rewarded. Mediocrity is protected at all costs. The internal tools they use are so old and obsolete that is not even funny. For instance: How can a database company not normalize the bug-status of their bug-tracking tool? Why would you leave it as a cross-product of two statuses, that cannot describe uniformly a bug status? Why would you have disparate set of 99 bug statuses? How can you provide better software when your own internal tools are obsolete? This is just one example. Plenty more.

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