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
2.0
Jun 30, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Can do innovative work in certain groups. Some amazing talent still works at Oracle. Some product groups are at the leading edge of technology.

Cons

Fast degenerating into a bureaucracy. Politics rules, competence is much discounted. Resembles the worst of IBM and CA at times. Management for the most part is a blend of willful ignorance and blissful incompetence. The more one sucks up the higher they progress. Is more like a retirement community where the salary is your retiral benefit.

3.0
Jun 26, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work-family life balance. Nice gym with swimming pool. Good smart people for the most part. Great cafeterias. Easy to find somebody to carpool with no matter where you live. Has offices in India, so can work from there or from home when on a 4-5 week India vacation/business trip.

Cons

Using many outdated technologies. Mindset still is to create in-house products even where much better open source solutions are available. Not much career growth. 5-10% annual salary growth max. Bug database is horrendous. Source control system is too overly complex and a big PITA.

4.0
Jun 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Senior Management doesn't complain if you need to work from home. Besides that, Oracle benefits such as health care and 401k are really good.

Cons

Salary is not competitive if compared to the market and bonuses are really bad, sometimes nonexistent. The fact that Oracle has acquired many companies has changed the company soul. Now it looks like one place with many different companies inside.

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