Vantaggi
Malaga is a beautiful place to live, and the salaries in Oracle are the best in town. Life quality in the south of Spain is incredible - the food, the social culture, all the sports you can practice (kitesurfing, kayaking, trekking, ball sports etc.). That's something you pay premium for in London or Dublin and yeah, you can't just buy the weather :-) The colleagues are usually great people with interesting backgrounds and a ton of talent, and you end up hanging out after work with many of them. If you happen to work with one of the good Oracle products (e.g. database) that's a perk too.
Svantaggi
1. Oracle has no company culture. It's a sales-driven company with questionable management that looks at employees as livestock and masks their lack of innovation by buying new products somebody else developed. 2. The salaries are negotiated once - when you join, then the only way to get promoted is through threatening the company to leave. 3. Oracle Apps suck. We're past the age of the glamorous database, engineering-driven company. Now acquisitions are made on weekly basis to fill the 'gaps' in Oracle's portfolio - then these products are sold to the customers as part of the bigger package while they are only poorly integrated with the rest of the stack. And then they'd go EOL as soon as the hype around it calms down. Cloud has only accelerated this technique. 4. Management is young and inexperienced and often promoted to the position thanks to nothing else but their networking skills. This ends up in very poor people management, lack of decision transparency, misunderstanding where the market goes, inability to negotiate with decisions of their bosses, producing remarks that kill the team spirit, caring only about being known in the higher management, and loosing team members by under appreciating talented individuals (until they decide to leave - and we get back to point 2). There are only few managers that are respected in the organisation. 5. Sales trainings are very bullish, praising Oracle as number one and making sure Amazon looks bad. That's a hard one to swallow for some more ethical folks.