Oracle reviews

Oracle is focused on promoting use of its database technology stack for any purpose. This is a fundamental engineering blunder: one tool does not solve all problems. Oracle faces significant competition from open source alternatives that are eating away at its customer base, and it is not clear how it will compete against OSS alternatives. Within Oracle, the diversity and use of H1-B talent results in significant infighting between groups, and within groups. In the dot-com bust years, many foreign workers may have found themselves in a position to work significantly harder than US citizens to hold onto their job, or face layoffs. Oracle actively uses layoffs to trim its workforce.

During my tenure with Oracle, mostly in a consulting role, I found that it is a dysfunctional organization with poor management and very little communication. They re-organize their org structure every year so there is little continuity (In a five year period, I had seven managers, some who I never met in person!). There is very little done to develop cohesive teams.