A pretty dysfunctional company and culture, struggling to be a real Cloud player
Pros
Oracle has a lot of good people at the working level, many of whom are talented. The company is fairly well respected in emerging countries like Mexico, Romania and India and attracts good people there. Many groups in the emerging countries are doing well and happy, but in the core regions and HQ, that is not the case.
Cons
At the highest levels, the company is quite dysfunctional with a lot of blame games and politics, and management styles driven by fear and cursing. A lot of managers have become good at managing up rather than listening and caring to what their teams need for success, what the customer experience should be, and how to deliver amazing products. In general many of the top executives have no interest to listen to useful insights from the troops. The company on the inside does not inspire great people to do great things, and morale in general is not good. The products are complex in nature so not an easy task to deliver, but they have surprisingly poor quality and the Oracle brand is in serious decline.
