Oracle reviews

There are alot of cons. Primarily, it's a top down organization with SVPs making the most minute, and often poor, decisions on product features and direction. It's first and foremost an engineering company, as opposed to a market-driven firm, which is a double-edged sword since there are many "boil-the-ocean" projects with are un-sellable and un-implementable. Fusion Apps, despite what they say, has been an egregious management failure (if it was so great, why did Oracle purchase RightNow, Taleo, and Netsuite? - and why does Oracle trail Salesforce and Workday so badly?). Many of the solutions require other Oracle products, which prevents individual groups from achieving their own optimal products (e.g., groups are required to use Oracle's IdM and OBIEE product - which are disasters).

Oracle has a very high turnover in the sales department for good reason. They have been reducing employee pay and are very stingy about raises, outings, any kind of expenses. Employees are the last consideration under Mark Hurd (Oracle is not exactly customer friendly either)