If you like to be just a number - Solution Consultant Oracle Employee Review

2.0
18 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

no one expects you to go the extra mile because the morale is so low that nobody does it. Informal "working from home" is tolerated to compensate the lack of salary review for years and years (sooner or later you will feel entitled to reduce the amount of working hours to compensate for stable salary over the years). Sad and mortifying? Yes it is. Database revenue still holding and keeping the boat afloat for the moment.

Cons

FY16 ended globally with revenues -3% and profit -10%, this means that cost must drop even faster to remain profitable. As result, ANZ has made more than one hundred people redundant, replacing them with offshore personnel or graduates. So no role is safe: good salesreps with dead territories, presales, architects, all are at risk. If you are evaluating a sales role, think twice. At first you'll think to have won the lottery and will be brainwashed with unrealistic product hype, then after a couple of failed quarters you'll be put on a performance improvement program (i.e. you'll be fired after another quarter). Any role other than sales is unlikely to be filled, as they are seen as pure cost. Pay rises: Managers tell subordinates to come with a competitor's work offer if they want a pay rise because a manager has no means to give it otherwise. Promotions: very bureaucratic process engineered to defuse any expectation and kill most of the requests before even starting, and even if you get promoted it takes one year to adjust your salary. Training: self training online, no more classes, no more traveling in exotic locations

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Pros

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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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