Vantaggi
Oracle, at least my department, is very employee friendly - especially towards managers, as we're afforded a very high degree of freedom on how we run our teams, and what works. - No imposed office days policy, just a general guideline. Very appreciated by everyone and easily the top reason for a professional post-covid to consider Oracle - Do it, if your hiring manager confirms a flexible wfh scheme. - Very positive towards work-life balance - Department specific, but Leadership is balanced, humane and fair. They want a level of result, and are fine letting you be as a person and not cattle if you're achieving.
Svantaggi
- Money. Easily the worst one. Oracle famously does not give raises, be it EMEA, APAC, or the moon. You need to fight tooth and nail and pester them every single year for a breadcrumb. - They do this, because they know their middle managers create an excellent environment that keeps people for low pay, high performance (again, department specific). - This isn't fair though. An outstanding employee with room to grow can go 5 years without so much as a cent added on top, or stock options, nothing - while a struggling employee who could be fired due to low performance is 'rewarded' just the same as the top performer - With nothing, or a general inflationary increase given to everyone. - There are some terrible middle managers and departments. I'm in sales, we are fine - But Oracle is famous for penny pinching drones, two examples: One such high level Director once questioned why people can't live like a king out of a 1000€ salary in Bucharest and they should be glad they got 'that much', and secondly just look to Boeing's recent troubles which started once said drones migrated from Oracle to Boeing and turned the company from an employee, engineering core company onto a liability like it is now. They should be in jail, and they got golden parachutes - unfortunately, many such cases get their start in Oracle and move on to ruin plenty of companies. Take Google, recently, their latest victim.