Nov 30, 2008
Oracle reviews
3.5
60% would recommend to a friend
Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia
42% approve of CEO
55% positive business outlook
Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 59,930 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oracle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).
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3.0
Nov 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Work is very technical and diverse giving plenty of opportunities to learn new technologies and keep your skills up to date with the market requirements. The learning curve keeps going higher and never flattens. Being large corporation, job stability is very good even in times of economic turmoils in the IT industry. Team members spanning from different parts of the globe make it easy to have flexible work hours and work from home a few days a week. Other employee benefits, such as cafeterias, huge gym including sports facility like basketball, cricket, badminton, swimming, plus regular health and other information sessions help the employees with their day to day life. Management and other senior employees are very technically sound and great educators for less experienced people. Job at Oracle is great for your first job as well as for experienced people. Overall, it is a very strong and stable company. Moreover, internal transfer within the company to different groups is very common. So, it is easy to move around as per your liking and comfort. Another positiveis the diverse culture. At the HQ the employees celebrate all important festivals around the world like from China and India.
Cons
Downsides depends and varies by group. Some managers are very demanding and it is difficult to satisfy them no matter how hard you work. But, that would be the case in any company where such managers are. While team spread globally does provide flexibility and work from home opportunities, but some phone conference times could be odd to accomodate people in different time zones. With flexible work hours, comes the disadvantage of having to work over the weekends sometimes. If you are given a short task on a Friday and you are expected to finish by early next week, what other choice would you have? But, this greatly varies across groups. Being a large corporation, the management hierarchy is quite deep, making it harder to get paid what you really deserve. Overall, the compensation is about the average market rate. However, the upsides clearly outweigh the downsides.
3.0
Nov 29, 2008
Huge exposure and resume value, but comes at a 'cost' that employees have to bear.
Current employee
Redwood City, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
market competitiveness, that translates into arguably one of the best financial performances in the industry, and gives a powerful ability to execute game changing, aggressive strategy. in turn, this also assures a higher degree of job security, specially during times of economic stress. broad scope of business provides an exposure to the enterprise software business that very few others can match. this adds value to the resume. executive management are masters of the game, and the company makes some brilliant strategic moves. it gives employees a ringside view of an organization that is a powerful execution machine. larry ellison, all said and done, is an iconoclastic leader and brilliant strategist. in summary, the best thing about oracle is its commanding position and the way it sustains it, and for employees, the chance to be exposed to it, shape it, participate in it, learn from it.
Cons
they are stingy with employee compensation, and people are expendable commodities. they are prepared to live with mediocrity in employee ranks, because the whole strategy and ethos is based on a top-down command structure, rather than bottoms-up, employee driven performance. Mid and much of senior management are all aligned to serve larry ellison's central command structure, rather than setting high bars for hiring and nurturing motivation and performance. The career planning role of HR is non-existent; they're just administrative drones. There are lots of organization silos, even duplicative functions, who all care about reporting up the command structure rather than work together. All of this also translates into the company being weak at home-grown execution, and has a lack of vision in segments that Larry Ellison is not yet convinced about.
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