Oracle Software Development Manager reviews

4.0

95% would recommend to a friend

(113 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

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42% positive business outlook

Manager, Software Development employees have rated Oracle with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 113 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Manager, Software Development professionals have a good working experience there. Oracle is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Manager, Software Development professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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113 reviews
3.0
Oct 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work life balance. If you are good at what you do it is fairly easy to stand out. Resonably good variable compensation package (options and bonus). It is a company set up to succeed in the enterprise space (given its size).

Cons

Career growth options are limited especially if you are in a group with by an underperforming leader. Work can get boring quickly and you don't really have an option to use tools that are best of breed (you must use oracle tools whether or not they are the best).

2.0
Sep 26, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It's a port in the storm. While chaos reigns in Silicon Valley, Oracle has seen steady growth, and is a very stable company. Also, barring layoffs, it's very hard to get fired.

Cons

It's a very top-down command-and-control structure. Lower level employees don't get any authority. Pretty much everything has to be cleared at the top. This causes unnecessary delays, and results in lost opportunities in pretty much everything.

4.0
Sep 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Software powerhouse, opportunity to work with various technologies - Stability, global diversification - Focus towards product and customers - Great sales team - Good employee benefits - Work-life balance (good company to raise family with) - Management is usually supportive of lateral transitions within the groups (e.g. from Manager to individual contributor and vice-versa) - Good gym - Has potential for growth

Cons

- One should always join the current firefight - Oracle has plenty - if one needs management attention. Sound workers should have made the choice to stay on without being noticed or appreciated. - Technology focused, management sees no value of professional degrees, like MBAs, MS etc., once you start working at Oracle. Though most manager will support the partial time-off required to do part-time studies. - Oracle does not tap into excellent social networks its employees are exposed to. (this choice is partly due to stricter security standards) - There are plenty of re-orgs and it can get pretty turbulent in some groups due to various acquisitions in past and possibly in future. So, if one is joining now, stay adaptive and embrace the change. You may see multiple managers in coming years.

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