Toxic environment - execs do not care about employees - Director Customer Support Oracle Employee Review

1.0
27 Apr 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits seemed good. Access to training on Oracle technologies.

Cons

Oracle tech is not the leading edge and you will lose marketable skills working there. Even in management, there is no career development that will transfer to another company. Raises are few and far between and never touch everyone - high salaries, raises and options/rsu's are reserved for the elite in OCI. Certain high level execs manage through fear and tantrums and have no clue how to run a customer focused enterprise software/cloud services company. OCI managers will often call other teams in Oracle stupid and useless and old and that attitude pervades the organization and is reinforced by the OCI HR - which is a distinct org from regular Oracle HR.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
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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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