Oracle Principal Member of Technical Staff reviews

One will be exposed to develop world class enterprise applications. There are very few companies that do such a large scale applications. Learn them while you were there. Your hard work is really appreciated by your peers. But don't expect to get any growth. One can grow when you stop working and just do talking. One should learn to play politics. If you just work silently and solve the company problems, no one cares for you and you will stay without any promotions. Keep in mind to negotiate a good starting salary. No one gets a good raise after joining. Company cares about the shareholders rather than employees. So, don't get too much emotional with the company. You are paid for your work "period"

Oracle is a very stable and established company, which dominates the database market and is trying to grow its application business. There are many different groups and projects. In database there are a lot of hard core systems type development in good old C, dealing with compliation, optimization and execution of queries and DB supported languages. In apps you can choose to work on data modeling, GUI, business logic, etc. And also other groups like tools and maintenance, so there are definetely a lot of options. People can switch groups pretty easily. Ther attitude of most people is very professional.