Not a good place to work - Vice President Oracle Employee Review

2.0
Jun 27, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Diverse culture, variety of product lines to learn and build experience on. The company has a good brand name in the outside world, and offers a very good gym facility for employees at redwood shores facility. The casual dress code helps too. They have many offices worldwide, so if you ever wanted to temporarily relocate to some place it would be easy to transfer to that place from Oracle without having to quit and find another job. Some groups get to do cool projects and I was lucky to be part of that project, you can get good recognition in that case.

Cons

Poor management, especially middle to senior level managers upto VP level. There isn't much opportunities to grow within the company. The promotion criteria is very biased, secretive, and judgmental. You have to be good friends with your manager to get anything. Else, you will not get anywhere. They are mostly hiring in India, so not much opportunities for folks working in Redwood City, CA headquarters office. Most of the hiring past several years has been happening in India. Product Managers are the worst that I have seen of any company. Most of them wouldn't get hired elsewhere. Many development managers, group managers, directors, senior directors and VPs are sticking around because they will have hard time finding job elsewhere. Most are fatally incompetent.

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Cons

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4.0
Oct 21, 2014
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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