Beware before joining a small organization - I-flex - Senior Applications Engineer Oracle Employee Review

2.0
22 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Banking domain knowledge. Excellent exposure to some of the latest avenues in banking and financial sector.

Cons

Highly egotist and un-cooperative middle level and senior management. People with more that 8-10 years in the company treat laterals and freshers as if they are the owners of the organization and they have hired some slaves to work for them. Except a few most of the managers would have a highly egotist attitude. - Very bad work culture and environment. - Kernel development wing is not having correct processes and methods to be followed for a development activity. Beware before joining into Kernel. They will fool you saying its RnD. Lets not get into that trap. Consulting is recomended as it has a little better work culture. - Just the name has changed from i-Flex to Oracle, but trust me there no sign of the company being Oracle. - Managers would always be keenly interested in knowing the salary that you have been offered as a leteral and would always keep on asking you about that. I dont think it happens anywhere in any company because the negotiations and your offer remains confidential between you and the HR dept of the company. - Very low onsite remunerations. Its not even 60 US dollars a day. - Appraisals and hikes are supposed to be done and reflected from April. In most of the companies if not April it gets reflected till May-June but here donot expect it to be done even till september or say may be october of the year.

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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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