Oracle reviews

- Fear-based leadership style (in upper levels). (Honestly, I don't know if it was always like this but definitely has gotten worse. - No significant salary increases (one 2% raise in 4-5 years). No Bonuses in almost a decade. - Culture that rewards competition over collaboration.

Oracle is cheap. Really cheap. Entire departments went two years with salary freezes, and constant cost-cutting measures made employees feel undervalued and underappreciated. One specific example: In order to improve their books by removing the liability of owed vacation, Oracle forced a company-wide Christmas break on all employees - a mandatory four-day period where we were required to expend nearly a third of our meager 13 days of vacation, without enough notice to actually plan any vacations during the time period. During the time period I was there, more than half of my immediate team churned out of the organization. More are on their way out. Oracle consistently pays below-market rates for employees, and nickel-and-dimes on benefits.