Went quickly downhill - QA Analyst Oracle Employee Review

2.0
Sep 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary and benefits, terrific work/life balance

Cons

Management heavy, there aren't enough 'doers.' The management overall are unsupportive and focus only on their goals to upper management. Zero training and alot of gatekeeping information in order for coworkers to stay competitive in a layoff happy company. No discussion of career growth or process improvements. Increasingly bulky and cumbersome requirements for developers without purpose or effect Generally negative culture, lack of agency or appreciation, annual restructuring, setup for failure in many cases even sabotage of work to avoid the yearly layoffs Dev process is bureaucratic and archaic, my team used waterfall but didn't create clear or predefined requirements since that "isn't agile." This of course lead to repeated release issues, and finger pointing. The vibe is overall conservative, which is fine until it becomes intentionally isolating. They definitely prefer people 'like' themselves. Good luck if you are not culturally consistent with the rest of team.

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5.0
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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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