Oracle Employee Reviews

Salary - C | Culture - D | Management - B | Coworkers - C

Pros: Great people to work with, if your are careful to join a group with good people. Great benefits, but you pay for them. Work travel has been cut significantly, which means more time at home. Great company strategy.
Cons: Oracle has been systematically getting rid of people with experience over the past 2 years, particularly anyone over 50 and above the mid-point in their salary bands. If you are in their top salary band and you are over 50 years old, you should keep your resume up-to-date as Oracle regularly uses RIFs to make their quarterly numbers. The company has NO loyalty, even for top performers. The company is stock-holder centric, then Executive centric, then customer, then employee . . . in that order. If you know that going in, you’ll understand how decisions are made.

There are mostly great managers at Oracle. Some really good and decent people, but they are being asked by top leadership to do indecent things to meet the Exec. leaders bonus incentives. People with 15-20-25 years dedicated to the company are dumped for someone 20 years younger making $10K less a year to save money. There is no loyalty at Oracle, even if you are a top performer. If you are a poorly paid top performer you may have a future for a while.

Salary - B | Culture - F | Management - A | Coworkers - D

Pros: Big name, looks good on resume. Lots of opportunities to work anywhere in the world Good stock
Cons: Oracle Health is barebones, not nearly enough people to do the work Pay for long-time employees is significantly less than new hires.

focus more on client satisfaction and not cutting costs. It's impossible to support clients when you're stretched too thin to focus on their needs.

Salary - F | Culture - F | Management - C | Coworkers - F

Pros: Remote work 1 week off for Christmas break Monthly no-meeting wellness days
Cons: - Annual pay raises are not guaranteed and depend upon Oracle budgeting for them. In 2023, 1 year after joining, there was no compensation cycle and no one's pay changed. In 2024 there was a cycle yet the budget was meager. You can put in your best year only to realize at review time that there will be no raises for that year. - Layoffs are a constant presence. I don't often see stories in the news about Oracle performing layoffs, yet they happen multiple times a year. While working at Oracle I felt like I could be laid off at any time, many of my team members and peers expressed the same feeling to me. - Culture is not encouraging or positive, toxic is an appropriate description. Leadership maintains a strategy of shaming people whose services do not perform well. I received little encouragement, lacked a sense of appreciation, and experienced minimal recognition for my effort. Specifically, leaders from OCI demonstrated the most toxic behavior - Deadlines and goals are overly aggressive and set by senior leaders that lack understanding of the work required to achieve said goals/deadlines. Leaders are arrogant, when learning new areas they take small bits of information and use it to form inaccurate conclusions/impressions and ask few questions to try to clarify their understanding. They set bold goals that sound impressive to their audience but ultimately must be walked back once they learn they are unrealistic - The attitude in Oracle Health is contentious instead of collaborative. I often observed teams pointing the finger at other teams versus trying to build a relationship and collaborate to solve problems. - Very little effort is spent on people development or recognition. No fun activities or events happened while I worked for Oracle, a small amount of recognition started to happen during town hall meetings because low employee satisfaction survey scores forced leaders to put together a plan to improve recognition. - Communication is on a "need to know" basis. Sharing of information is sparse though has improved lately and happens during quarterly all-hands meetings. - The technology used at Oracle is unimpressive for a tech company of this stature. There are few 3rd party tools because "Oracle runs on Oracle". Slack, Zoom, Jira, and Confluence are the biggest, Oracle only recently adopted Office 365 and prior to that had their own version of Microsoft OneDrive. All other tools are either Oracle products (HCM for HR tools) or custom built apps on Oracle's Apex platform. - IT support is difficult, all support is done through Slack and I often experienced long wait times for my requests. In one instance I was unable to use my device, yet I waited 6 hours for an initial response and tried to be productive using my phone while I waited. One support ticket went 2 weeks without any response. I think support does their best yet they are overwhelmed by the number of employees they support and the amount of technology change that happens in the environment.

- Ask more questions, try to learn more from your people - Communicate more regularly, even if it's information you do not think is pertinent, share to be transparent - Plan better - Encourage and support your people

Salary - C | Culture - B | Management - B | Coworkers - C

Pros: Iron clad stability, lax work environment.
Cons: Complete lack of upwards mobility unless deemed proverbial Golden Egg by a random manager.

Stop having favorites.

Salary - A | Culture - A | Management - A | Coworkers - A

Pros: Good people, offline modeling, navigate your own path
Cons: None right now, be open to leaving for promotion.

Salary - | Culture - | Management - | Coworkers - B

Pros: I liked working there a lot
Cons: They have a tough culture

Salary - B | Culture - F | Management - C | Coworkers - F

Pros: Easy work and a hybrid schedule
Cons: My boss in the Burlington office would scream and spit in my face so much that'd he get red and sweaty (and he was very intimidating). It was scary. After the first time he said HR wouldnt do anything and that I was stuck with him for at least 2yrs, so I may as well buckle up. I hate him so much that I allowed him to degrade me worse than a schoolyard bully. He'd say things like, I hate you, you're the worst, I can't stand you... I should have gotten him fired but I was afraid. When I left the org, I told HR and she didn't care. That HR is their to protect the company and its lifers, not you. My advice is to get a job there, don't be #1 or you'll get noticed, just keep low for 2-3yrs then quit for a better money & culture.

Stop allowing bullies to work for you. Oracle is KNOWN as the toxic company. Good for you that you have a mafia-grip on F500 data centers, that won't last forever. Fix your brand by cleaning house from the BDR to Senior VPs.

Salary - B | Culture - A | Management - A | Coworkers - A

Pros: Everyone you work with is incredibly smart, kind, and good at their job. Truly working with a league of experts.
Cons: Some travel and high quota goals YoY

Salary - D | Culture - D | Management - D | Coworkers - D

Pros: Flexible schedule Good benefits Collaboration
Cons: pay lack of upward mobility

Salary - C | Culture - C | Management - B | Coworkers - C

Pros: Fun enviorenment, managers motivate their employees well.
Cons: Some territories are worse than others, they hire too many sdr's so layoffs are common