Great company to learn and advance your career - Cloud Engineer Oracle Employee Review

4.0
Oct 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Learned so much and met great people! Oracle is a large company with many different business units and opportunities to excel in. If you need a change just apply for another job in oracle internally and snap you have a new team and new project to work on which is easier than searching for a new job outside the company. The company is involved in databases, Linux, Middleware, cloud, etc so there is a lot to learn and soak up while your there as well.

Cons

Oracle is ruthless in looking to outsource resources outside the U.S (cheaper labor) I have seen globalizations ugly side at Oracle as more work goes overseas and leaves the U.S, its unfortunate but leaves us in the U.S to fight to stay competitive for our price. The June "Hunger Games" are real! Let me explain, around June time is the end of the fiscal year and then projects and team efforts are assessed. If your team is not performing up to par or you personally you may want to update your resume just in case you go to the chopping block. Just make sure your getting good performance reviews :) Oracle is a large company and as expected your work becomes more partitioned into islands or "silos". So for example the networking team does the load balancing and network design, the ops team deploys the servers and manages them, then the dev team creates the automation, etc. So if you like startups and how you can change hats from system admin to dev, to network guy, you will miss have that option open at oracle.

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Pros

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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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