Oracle reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(60,041 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

41% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 60,041 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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1.0
Dec 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are quite good. Several med plans to pick from is a great benefit.

Cons

If you're Larry, Safra, or Mark you're doing great. You're making millions on the backs of the developers and support engineers with whom you refuse to share the wealth they have made you. No raises for them in a decade or more hardly seems justifiable. Management is scared out of their wits by the folks at their level. Management has no say, no power, nothing. All they care about is making the upper level execs look good and feel good so that the lowly ones can maybe keep their jobs. If you're in Support you are looked upon as worthless trash. The work is heaped on at astounding levels - 40+ SRs in your queues, then you are trashed for getting bad customer sat scores or not closing enough SRs in a short amount of time. Nothing you do will ever make a difference. Once you embrace that thought you'll be fine. The stuff this company puts out as "quality" software is pathetic. They've taken so many pieces of code from other companies that they've acquired and just velcroed them together it's no wonder the stuff doesn't work well. "The difference between a used car salesman and an Oracle salesman is that the used car salesman knows when he's lying".

2.0
Nov 30, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good company to start at for general industry knowledge and understanding of enterprise operations. There is so much knowledge to be attained at this company it is ridiculous. They power the top companies globally, and hold deep relationships with the majority of executives in these top companies. It is a very sales focused company and will teach you flawless sales execution.

Cons

You are a number and completely replaceable. Management (finance and operations) ALWAYS maintain levers to reduce their costs and your compensation. Sales example: very complex compensation plans and your commissions will be held and delayed while they are "under review". Technical example: they will give your target base, but incorporate a set amount of "over time eligible" hours to achieve that number - and these overtime hours are at management discretion. So you will have to work longer hours to reach same base, and depending on how the business is doing management can simply not approve the overtime hours reducing their costs and your ability to earn. From a financial strategy you have to applaud the genius of the above nuanced strategy for maintaining cost control, it is just sad that it is at their employees expense. Also be wary if you cannot handle a cut throat environment as this is the way at oracle. There is so much pressure on hitting the numbers that people do bad things to achieve, and then they are rewarded with upward movement thus perpetuating that behavior. As the industry pushes to cloud and renewal business is more critical than ever, I am hoping this fixes itself.

2.0
Nov 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are decent (but see Cons below). Free sodas. Unlimited sick days. The work is often interesting and satisfying. Oracle is a huge company (+100k people) so there is usually the ability to move around and adjust your career path. Salaries are average.

Cons

- Oracle is trying to get a foothold in a new market: telecommunications. However the company is too big and set in its ways to play in new spaces, and is unable to adapt their thinking to this new market which is totally different than the database SW that they currently dominate. As a result they are getting killed in the market and folks are losing their jobs. It is sad, the products are great but upper management has no idea how to market them. Unable to change from the "Oracle way" of doing business. - PTO is ok (13 days accrued to start), but they force employees to take 3 days of PTO around Christmas time, so you pretty much have 10 days of actual PTO and 3 fixed holidays. They started doing this in 2015 as a cost-cutting measure, but looks like they'll be doing it each year and yet still tell prospective employees that they have 13 days. - No bonuses, salaries stay pretty flat. "Sorry we're not making our numbers", however top-level management somehow gets its massive bonus and salary increase each time... - Not willing to invest in the workers at the ground level.

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