Not a good place for young engineers - Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Employee Review

2.0
May 10, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Expectation is low and if you are not looking for aggressive career or you are somewhat close to retirement and want to have slow pace environment, Oracle good be a good environment. - Work life balance - Flexibility of working from home - Average benefits: no paternity leave, ok health insurance

Cons

-Slow innovation and doesn't appreciate high performers -Lower pay raise than market and no annual bonus -Super low vacation days. I have 13 days but company is forcing all employees to use 4 vacation days in Dec 24 and Jan 1. Therefore, you have less than 2 weeks vacations. -Low budget for self improvement -Average skilled software engineers -Not a good place if you are young and eager to learn.

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Cons

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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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