Oracle Software Engineering Manager reviews

2.7

45% would recommend to a friend

(24 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

50% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Manager, Software Engineering employees have rated Oracle with 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 24 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Manager, Software Engineering professionals have an average working experience there. Oracle is rated 30% below average by Manager, Software Engineering professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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24 reviews
3.0
Jan 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Smart, talented group of co-workers - Flexible, hybrid work-life balance - In general, never had a problem taking time off or time out of my day to attend my kids events or go to medical appointments. - Good benefits - Corporate takes work-life balance seriously; tries to be supportive of employees career paths and goals - Good opportunities to broaden development skills and continuous learning.

Cons

- Pay seemed to be under market value - Sometime unrealistic expectation from upper-middle management for teams to do more with less - Such a large company .... it can be difficult to make sense of some of its policies. Too much red tape to get what you need when you need it. - Sometimes felt like there was a regular expectation of working weekends to meet deadlines, but company is so big that this isn't true/consistent across the org - depends on business unit and management team.

2.0
Jun 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Competitive salary and interesting, large-scale problems,

Cons

The management chain is a series of folks promising the impossible to their manager, all the way up from line manager to C-suite. This will become your problem, either via impossible deadlines, accumulation of crushing technical debt, or whole-sale restructuring of entire orgs to facilitate a C-suite promotion or fulfill a promise to lay people off. Also, effectively uses stack-ranking for perf reviews. Expect to do an adequate or better job and receive a 2 if you're unlucky, or, as a manager, expect to be pressured to give your worst-performing-but-capable staff 2's (or most absent - strange trend of people returning from sabbatical or paternity/maternity leave receiving 2's! funny, that!).

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