Huge, bureaucratic company, great at team level - Principal Software Engineer Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Sep 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I had a great time working with the former Sun Microsystems part that Oracle Corporation acquired in 2008. Specifically working on the Solaris kernel. This part I like--a lot. I worked with one of the best teams of people in terms of talent and being part of a cooperative, fun team. Pay is good--or at least competitive. Being a big company gives many opportunities to look around elsewhere if you don't like what you are doing now. The top-management are competitive and have business smarts (if not always technical smarts).

Cons

Huge bureaucratic company with many processes to slow productive work down. The corporate level seems hostile to cutting-edge technology and research. Too many layoffs--they seem to perfer to layoff than reassign people. My part of the company, former Sun Microsystems/Solaris/SPARC, is now gutted and doesn't really exist any longer except for a skeleton crew for sustaining support.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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