Oracle Principal Member of Technical Staff reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(396 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

35% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Principal Member Technical Staff employees have rated Oracle with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 396 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Member Technical Staff professionals have a good working experience there. Oracle is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Member Technical Staff professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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396 reviews
4.0
Mar 26, 2009
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Pros

Great "name" company. Very collegial atmosphere. At ORCL you have the opportunity to work on challenging issues in large customer organizations. Complex issues that require innovative solutions.

Cons

Review / Promotion / Compensation reviews are essentially non-existent or glossed over. Almost secretive in how and when decisions are made. Feedback on performance is lacking.

4.0
Feb 28, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Open work culture , abundance of learning opportunities, very good HR practices , you get to interact and work with some of best and brightes in the industry, Another best and very extremely progressive HR policy is job rotation …you are entitled to seek opportunities within Oracle… other group after spending 12 months with businesss group which hired you…this policy practiced in both letter and spirit Support processes are extremely employee friendly Its awesome experience especially if are associated with sales/market facing groups…you get to work with some of the extreamly motivated and the highly talented folks

Cons

Sometime loyalty to manager /boss supersedes meritocracy

3.0
Feb 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work-life balance. Lots of vacation days, lots of floating holidays, and excellent benefits. Reasonable in granting flexibility in working hours. Working from home is usually not a problem. Food is available on-site and parking is plentiful. Peers are intelligent and respectful. So the day-to-day operational aspects of working there are pretty painless. Perform your job diligently and you'll be rewarded with job security and no intrusions on after hours life. Plenty of opportunities for training here to help you acquire new skills or improve the ones you have with supportive management that doesn't see it as stealing corporate time.

Cons

Too big a company. News from top management takes a long time to filter down to the rank-and-file. Large size also hinders basic operational procedures like procuring a computer or requesting reimbursements of business expenses. Most often, too difficult to gauge the impact one has on the company. And too often, business aims of groups are not aligned with each other, thus creating in-house competition and redundant work. Perhaps management does this deliberately, but probably just a result of division heads carving out their fiefdoms and doing their best to survive and succeed. As a result, whole teams can be redirected at entirely new tasks with all produced work going to waste.

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