Oracle Employee Review
Awful place to work, toxic culture
- Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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.
Comments
- 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
Ratings
F - Salary & Benefits | F - Culture | B - Management | F - Coworkers
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