Oracle reviews

- No raises or bonuses companywide this year (except sales), and minimal to no raises in previous years, despite the stock performing well. - Few opportunities for growth, promotion, or transferring internally, even when you exceed expectations. - Mediocre vacation for hourly employees (just 2.5 weeks), of which they require you to spend four vacation days per year during "winter break". - Technologically behind the times: we still have to do a lot of work in Excel, only recently started using a SaaS platform, etc. - Senior management doesn't care about employee satisfaction or retention.

Forced performance ratings. Typically it's been 10/70/20, but this year a 20/70/10 distribution was enforced. (under performing/meets expectations/exceeds exceptions) Headcount reductions occur in parallel with aggressive hiring - at the dev team level. Constant thrashing on "top projects" or "P0" management tasks which also compete with "all hands on deck" Zoom sessions to construct PPT slides for senior/exec VP level update meetings in a period of 30 mins or less.