Short Sighted Company Where the only Concern is the Stock Price. - werkgeversreview Senior Manager bij Oracle

3,0
13 aug 2018
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Pluspunten

I worked with a great, relatively small team of talented engineers on what I found to be a fascinating and complex platform that kept me engaged for two years. I had an amazing direct manager.

Minpunten

Oracle has fallen into the common trap of "big, dumb, lazy" company. I was easily in the top echelon of productivity and was promoted twice in two years. A team was put under me that performed extremely well - on time, almost bug free, no drama, no turnover. When our product seemed to start getting sidelined, I spent over a year finding more things for my team to do- refactoring, new ideas, new projects, etc. Almost a year went by and the product organization became more incompetent by the day - we didn't get a major, product-driven feature deployed to production in the entire last year I worked there. I was not shocked when I was laid off, and in fact I already had another job almost lined up. In retrospect, now that it's been a few weeks, I'm a bit shocked that they didn't even try to transfer me to another group within Oracle. In fact, there is a huge office even closer to where I worked. Let me put it this way - in the Denver software market, NOBODY lays off good engineers... NOBODY. Unless you're a dumb, lazy company of course.

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5,0
10 apr 2026
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Pluspunten

OCI is growing aggressively Great opportunity to lean

Minpunten

Refreshers are not as great

4,0
21 okt 2014
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Pluspunten

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).

Minpunten

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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