Cheap Pay, Good Work - Applications Architect Oracle Employee Review

2.0
12 Sept 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good Place to Learn. Lots of training available if you want to learn.

Cons

Salary is well below industry standard. Chances of significant salary increases are nil. Employees are not rewarded well enough. Effort to retain good talent is negligible. The overall message the company seems to send its employees is "we don't care. Stay if you like, if not we will just outsource your job to India." In some groups managers are terrible, especially the ones with non-American Origin. I lost most of my hair working at one such group.

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Pros

Salary time off flexiblity hybrid work model

Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
Recommend
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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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