Oracle reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(59,928 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

42% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 59,928 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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3.0
Aug 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Competitive starting salary for the first 2 yrs along with the flex credits and 401k matching. RSUs instead of stock options starting 2015. 2. Good place to get your US status. 3. Decent training ground for the NCGs for the first 2-3 yrs. Quite a few talented/experienced engineers you can learn from. Work on the latest technology/tools. 4. Overall good work life balance. Stable job. A few managers/groups will make your life miserable. 5. Nice campus environment. Nice gym/sports groups. 6. Brand recognition on the resume.

Cons

1. No bonus. No salary raise at least for the first 2-3 yrs. When promotion comes, salary increases by at most ~5-6%). After 4-5 yrs, your salary will be significantly below the market standard. Other benefits if any are average to poor, ie. ESPP. 2. NCGs are paid higher than the senior engineers (offers increase by ~$3-4k each yr while the salary of the seniors stays flat), due to Oracle's global talent strategy of capitalizing on fresh talents for their first 4 yrs, after which you're irrelevant to the company. 3. Not a fertile environment for top talents and innovations, mainly due to the management who tends to reward obedience rather than performance. 4. Lacks diversity. ~ 25% of the NCGs each yr come from the same school with similar background. 5. Rarely can return after leaving the company. Asked to sell all stocks/options after you leave. All benefits stop on your last day. 6. No unshared office space for NCGs. Food quality and cost in the cafe is average. 7. Sensitive Intergroup politics. Moving between groups is rare if not impossible.

1.0
Aug 21, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Resources, training and nice people

Cons

Terrible management that promotes internal competition and back stabbing, overlapping technology that confuses customers, cult-like culture with zero work-life balance, incredibly screwed up processes and a compensation plan that is written to keep sales reps from making any money.

1.0
Aug 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good segue to another job - Good work/life balance (depending on if your manager is a micromanager) - Extremely difficult to get fired

Cons

- Can't imagine any job paying less than what Oracle pays - WAYYYYY too much kool-aid, whose irony is compounded by the fact that there is so much turnover from the people passing it out. Masters of propaganda trying to pseudointellectually justify the job as a satisfying career (it's lead gen, it sucks). Also, management brags about making extraordinary amounts of money when it is so obvious that nobody does - Any time someone makes money, they find every BS reason to claw commission back from extremely ambiguously worded comp plan. And don't even get me started on next year's Comp Plans when you do "well"... - Incompetent management/internal software tools. Things that you would imagine are very simple and should take no more than 30 minutes end up taking weeks. Generating an Ordering Document is probably the most stressful task ever. The vast majority of companies outside of Oracle use more advanced versions of Oracle software than does Oracle. Ironic huh? - Your income potential is a complete crapshoot. Usually in teams, only one or two accounts have ALL of the good accounts bundled together, so that person makes all of the money. Also, territories are cut so small (some people even have one account, imagine that) that, even at a leisurely pace, you can reasonably talk to every major decision maker in 4-5 months. - Coming to Oracle will be a black hole in your career. You will be held hostage, learn no important/relevant skills (many of the tasks are esoteric to Oracle's broken processes and non-transferrable)

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