Oracle reviews

I had started at a small company as a younger engineer making decent pay. Then we were bought by oracle. We received 0 pay increases for anyone despite being profitable before we were bought out. Instead there was a systematic stripping of benefits. We used to have free lunches, snacks, regular company outings, parties, runs etc. Not the biggest deal right? but oracle attributes a dollar amount to it and that's all you ever are too. I was promoted to Senior Eng. No pay increases. There were several people that left my team because priorities became mismanaged by Oracle. That means more work for the rest of us. Still no increase. Instead of hiring qualified local candidates we were immediately pushed to outsource. There are now significantly more India devs on my team than U.S. ones. I am also a person of color and I know that there are other people in my position being paid a lot more than I am. Work wise, our product was doing very well before we were bought. We thought oracle would mean an influx of money leading to better management and coding practices. Instead we were pushed from day 1 to, instead of focusing on customer needs, use oracle products. Convert all of our applications to use the horribly thought-out OracleDB, instead of PostGres. The database is not user friendly at all and really requires you to be a professional oracle db admin to get off the ground. So now I have to learn this on top of my other work, still no qualified team members, still no pay increases. The products suffer, the customer suffers, the employees suffer. The tools they give you are outdated, this is not the place to go if you want to be doing anything current. Upper management has no idea what they are doing and are pushing nonsense products and offerings(aka huge push for using blockchains for no reason other than press). "autonomous" db that actually requires way more upkeep than people are being told. Push employees to use products that are totally useless like Oracle's version of youtube and facebook. It has been ~3 years and I'm leaving and I am one of the last ones in my office to do so.

- There is no such thing as an annual bonus, raise or promotion. It all depends on managers 3-4 levels above you. If they decide to give themselves a good bonus to improve their golf game then that money isn't going to trickle down. - All manager titles from M2-M4 mean nothing, they don't have any visibility of the budget, raises, bonuses, etc. Their answer to everything is, "I wish I knew the answer but I don't". - Oracle has offices around the world and so do other tech companies like Google, but the way Oracle treats engineers in countries like India is pathetic. Indian engineers are only hired to maintain legacy products paying them roughly $5k(converted to dollars) annually while companies like Google only hire the smartest and pay at least $50k(converted to dollars) annually to engineers in India. Oracle's business model is to acquire companies -> figure out how much of the engineering can be off-shored to India, and then just keep 5-10 engineers in the US because anything else is expensive. If your company recently got acquired by Oracle, start looking for another job before they start off-shoring engineering work. - They ruin companies that are acquired. - HR department is a joke, they will not care about anything you say. - Oracle doesn't even give swag to new hires, you need to buy your own swag when you join the company. - No free food. They took away free food when we were acquired.