Limited career growth - Network Engineer Oracle Employee Review

2.0
9 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of smart people to work with. Relatively secure jobs available. Average but acceptable benefits. Decent starting pay. Line level management is usually technically savvy and very involved with intelligent decision making.

Cons

Get completely passed over in a highly political environment. Executives often don't listen well to lower management or their workforce on important issues, or if they do, it takes a long time to get through... often wasting whole years of work chasing a fools errand. Its common to build a lot of experience in non-transferable industry knowledge and proprietary technologies no one outside of Oracle cares about. Extremely difficult to get raises, and your starting pay is likely where you'll be stuck for years. Forced 5-day holiday break over Christmas is not a company holiday, and is rather deducted from your PTO accrual balance regardless of how much you have (which means you can go negative). Execs make lots of dumb decisions for primarily political reasons and it shows.

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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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