Oracle reviews

We are reminded every day that people are disposable. Many parts of the company are modern and customer centric. Some divisions seem to be only focused on auditing and threatening to sue customers to try to bilk out one last sale. These people burn every bridge and leave lasting opponents everywhere. Many customers come to hate Oracle. Salespeople seem to be the only safe job in a first world country. But these people are disposable as well as they are paid well and often replaced. Sales are down? Fire all the sales managers and hire new salespeople. Repeat every year or two. All other job functions are being sent to India or another low cost Asian country.

At the highest levels, the company is quite dysfunctional with a lot of blame games and politics, and management styles driven by fear and cursing. A lot of managers have become good at managing up rather than listening and caring to what their teams need for success, what the customer experience should be, and how to deliver amazing products. In general many of the top executives have no interest to listen to useful insights from the troops. The company on the inside does not inspire great people to do great things, and morale in general is not good. The products are complex in nature so not an easy task to deliver, but they have surprisingly poor quality and the Oracle brand is in serious decline.