Oracle Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Compensation sucks. Too many acquisitions in recent years means the company doesn't have a culture anymore. Moreover, in all the layoffs that happened at Denver office (4 layoffs), not even a single manager was let go, while hundreds of individual contributors was shown the door. This is so unusual for a tech company, and reveals how the politics at Denver office works. Most of the Denver managers have been there for a long time because they are incompetent and won't find work elsewhere. This has created a culture of favoritism and mediocrity.

Downsides depends and varies by group. Some managers are very demanding and it is difficult to satisfy them no matter how hard you work. But, that would be the case in any company where such managers are. While team spread globally does provide flexibility and work from home opportunities, but some phone conference times could be odd to accomodate people in different time zones. With flexible work hours, comes the disadvantage of having to work over the weekends sometimes. If you are given a short task on a Friday and you are expected to finish by early next week, what other choice would you have? But, this greatly varies across groups. Being a large corporation, the management hierarchy is quite deep, making it harder to get paid what you really deserve. Overall, the compensation is about the average market rate. However, the upsides clearly outweigh the downsides.