Oracle Database Administrator (K-Tech St. Louis) - Database Administrator KPMG Employee Review

1.0
Aug 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The firm actually promotes great benefits and supports many good causes.

Cons

70 hour weeks; zero comp time offered. No work / life balance. On-call is horrendous when it is your week, which is somewhat acceptable in this field, but never a single hour of comp-time offered by mgmt, which was unacceptable. It ruined my personal and family life, so I quit before it killed me. The bonus was only ~1.5 percent, which also did not make up for the excessive work-load. My particular leader who was in Montvale, New Jersey...she would often yell at me over phone loud enough that my co-workers could hear her over the handset; I should have turned her into HR, but regret I never did. One example was I worked an issue all night long going to bed 4am. I emailed team I was going to sleep in and work from home when I woke up, then immediately was chastised for not driving downtown and being "onsite and at my desk" by 9am. This was the final straw. $5 per day to park in Downtown St. Louis. Recruiter and middle mgmt offered me to work-from-home 1-2 days per week prior to accepting job, but once hired, they reneged and I was only able to do so 1 day per week, even though I had those details in writing. Bed-checks were also daily ritual by my leader. One Friday, after working 60-hour week, my co-worker said he'd had enough for one week and was going home. I said "me too". It was not 10 minutes later that we both received an email asking our where-abouts, as M/S LYNC showed our laptops as being "disconnected". This was followed by text. This is not acceptable in any setting, definitely not a professional I.T. setting....and reminded be of back when we were in Kindergarten. I observed that KPMG is a decent company, and K-Tech certainly has some good teams to work for in the St. Louis office, but I would run as fast as you can from the Oracle DBA / SQL Server team, unless you are homeless and need a job.

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