Oracle reviews

Just bad, don't invest your energy here, you'll regret it. This is an org that values appearance of progress over actual progress. If you have experience doing pretty much anything - you will be so frustrated. This is the worst employer I have ever had. Wouldn't recommend it even to my enemy. Low salary, absolutely no tools, incompetent leaders, a lot of colleagues are unequipped in terms of skills but have positions of influence leading to really, really, really poor decisions. Leadership make bold claims that have zero substance. We're apparently building AI, but there's no actual strategy (well we have PowerPoints) or skills. Promotions, payrises and bonuses are given out not based on performance (I've had outstanding performance ratings with zero promotion or bonus, multiple years in the row), they're given out to the inner circle of people that have been around since before oracle acquisition and know how to play the political game. They have reorged themselves into oblivion, every time creating more silos so there's always dependancies, always duplication of effort, duplication of code, there's hostility between the most recent segregation of teams as one group is seen as more superior than the other. Every time they reorg, it just deepens the silo ridges between teams to the point where you don't know who's doing what. They try to templetize critical thinking because they lack people that can actually think critically - and those put in charge of the process themselves don't know what the best practices are because they have never done it. Every year the company conducts annual surveys to gauge employee satisfaction, but the results do not ever translate into tangible improvements. They have a 'resilience award' to normalise organisational incompetencies and inefficiencies - well done, you've put up with insanity- have a pin. Literally - they give out pins as a thank you for hard work, instead of actually rewarding people. And whenever you mention an area that is bad you hear "oh but we've come so far". it's a founder-led feature factory. They pretend to do product management, ux design and research (lol "research"). Leadership in key areas such as product management, UX design, and research lack of hands-on experience - it's like being on a plane with a captain that is googling how to fly said plane for the first time - they just put slide decks together and call that strategy and then get very dissatisfied when results don't live up to their pptx decks. No actual direction. Toxic newbie managers that get away with absolutely awful behaviour - there are some that take credit for their team work, manipulate conversations in ways that makes them look good. I've witnessed female colleagues have to put up with so much mansplaining that goes unchecked - and when challenged it's met with gaslighting. I've seen female colleagues be dismissed and ignored, but male colleagues repeating the same message be praised for ingenuity. It's very much a place full of egos racing to the top of peak Dunning Kruger. This is not reflection of broader Oracle, I have no experience at Oracle itself, only Oracle Netsuite.

No real career path. Promotions seem arbitrary and somewhat capricious. Direct management is supportive but holds no sway with levels up. Poor sales training; lack of mentorship and it is seemingly impossible to move around into other roles from this position. HR is non-responsive and not helpful. People work hard but at the end of the day are expendable minions. Would not advise graduates take this role other than for the name on their resume