Oracle reviews

Where to begin... The environment is toxic. People are pitted against each other. People are so bonus-focused that people willingly steal opportunities to get ahead. The irony is Oracle doesn't adequately pay bonuses to its employees to begin with (cut by 50%) because the field doesn't perform. Managers make it clear that you aren't valuable to the company. You are a number. Numbers are everything here and if you don't hit your number, you don't matter. That attitude trickles down because Oracle hires hundreds of new college graduates each year known as the "Class Ofs." To everyone not a Class Of, those college graduates will never be more than that. From many reps and the field, the Class Ofs are viewed as entitled and incompetent, as if they were somehow handed this job because they went to a certain university rather than going through an extensive interview process. There is zero accountability from management. Everything gets shifted onto someone else, and as a result nothing gets resolved. I have never seen a company, and yes I realize its size, with so many internal issues. A day in the life of Corporate America, right? No, it's totally unacceptable.

Unreal bureaucracy, more time spent filling out spreadsheets, reports, and PowerPoints than in actually doing your job. Feels unnecessarily hard to get anything done, also that too much energy is going into simply justifying your function's existence. PTO plan is way behind the times, particularly for a tech company. No merit increases. Seems every year they take something away - 2014 it was car allowances, 2015 it was forced PTO at end of year, announced after 3/4 of the year had passed when many already took the year's PTO and now owe it back (or get it deducted next year - are you kidding?). For a company with considerable resources, not enough attention and focus put on programs to transition to SaaS-based business model. Senior management and HR seem way out of touch with the way people expect to be managed today and what's actually required to run a successful tech business in the cloud.