Flexibility (depends a lot on your manager) but bad salary growing - Applications Developer Oracle Employee Review

4.0
Jan 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of flexibility to work from home (depends a lot on your manager) Good work-life balance There are a lot of areas, once in it's not that hard to look for another team Smart people

Cons

Salary does not grow at the rate it grows in the market, so if you join today, chances are that the salary improvement you get for being a good employee in 2 years will be less than the offer another person will get in 2 years In some areas there is a lot of legacy code and it takes too long to move to newer technologies (depends on the area)

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5.0
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Pros

OCI is growing aggressively Great opportunity to lean

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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