Great staff, meaningful work - Member Of Technical Staff Oracle Employee Review

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).

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.

Good compensation package. The work was interesting and the division (OCI) was growing. My group was growing. My peers and most folks I cam across were decent, hard working and smart.

Upper management, especially from mid 2025 developed a "deliver, as close to on time as possible regardless of the human cost" attitude. You were expected to be grateful to have a job at OCI/Oracle. People were complete commodities and if someone left, my SVP literally said "if they leave, then perhaps we'll hire a replacement that will be more grateful..." No raises or RSUs in September of last year for annual evaluations was justified by the record high stock price (300+) - yet when the stock came crashing back down to below 200, or even 145, no mention was made of the effective reduction in compensation. Management spiraled into blaming everyone but themselves for poor quality, missed deadlines, etc usually due to their own proclivity to insist on early delivery (and resulting cutting corners/quality) and insisting that we could just "Use AI" to make things better.