Everything is overrated. Any silly, minimum effort is dressed up with words like "awesome", "impact", "mission", "Agile," persona", etc just to try to make it sound important and to motivate the employees. You can spend months doing (barely) nothing. But don't worry, a powerpoint presentation will make it look great. Sometimes we wonder what do PMs and UXs do apart from overselling results. The office has grown without any control. The great culture of the past is now lost, management doesn't know how or what to manage, Oracle's acquisition made things even more boring and slow. They thought that having an office at Torre Agbar would make them stand out, but hey, there are tons of IT companies with much better offices. Oracle wasted a LOT of money buying super expensive ugly corporate furniture that nobody is using! No, really, there are some "collaboration areas" with fancy sofas and chairs that are so ugly that nobody is even sitting on them. On the other hand, everybody is complaining about low salaries. We have always been discouraged to work from home, while management is never at the office. Some of the best team members left, people's motivation got even lower and the management thought that a team building activity would solve that. I am thinking of leaving as well. A lot of my colleagues think the same. It feels like a waste of time. But don't worry, the Oracle logo looks great on the LinkedIn profile.
