Interesting projects, not very steady grow path. - Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Employee Review

3.0
26 Nov 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It is one of the best companies to work at in México. It has really interesting projects in the development area. There are a lot of incentives like free fruit, working for home availability (depending on your project and manager). It is one of the best companies to work at as a college graduate.

Cons

The software development seems to be quite outdated, there are no recent methodologies being used (agile for example), any IDE or debugger must be setup by yourself, for example. The development workflow is really slow and sometimes boring, each bug fix has to be throughly tested and reviewed, this leads to really slow development (and this produces low motivation). There is not a clear career path and the raises are scarce, it is common for new hires to earn more than you.

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Cons

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4.0
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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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