Modern Sweatshop - Senior Manager Oracle Employee Review

2.0
1 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Big company, lot of facilities, gym, nice campus etc - Each group has its on culture

Cons

- Some of the groups are modern sweatshops. Made people work 16 hrs across globe and weekends, but wont compensate anything..no raise or bonus of options for most of the employees. - Poor salary. New college hires will get more salary than an employ worked for 10yrs in some of the groups. - Some of the groups are heavely into process. They even forget what the processes are created for. Career - Promotions are given as replacement for benefits. If you know the management well you can get a nice title. Snr Management is rewarded at the cost of hard working employees. If you want to retire - this is the best place. 20% of the employees work like dogs, 80% is enjoy their life. its like big Federal Govt office. Innovation, creativity - non existent. Some of the management runs their groups like their kingdom. Rules are made on the fly.. HR has no role - Unless a manager want to screw up some employee. Then HR will in the forefront to help the manager. Customer support - Sucks big time. Most products are buggy because of over worked and low moral on employe side.

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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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