Q&A With Oracle Employees

If you like a global environment and believe in the long term goals, this is a good company for you.

Good pay, and also can work on fun stuff depending on the org. Again, it is a huge company so this varies by who you ask.

No longer any reason. Originally had hoped that Oracle was a place to advance and grow. NOT TRUE!!! Terrible pay. No increases in 7 years!!

No

Yes

Background check is definitely there. But most likely there would not be any drug test.

HR is there to protect and defend the company, this is true for almost any company though.

Poorly

HR at Oracle is literally invisible and really hard to find who one would even talk to. Everything at Oracle is self service so getting hold of a real person vs. an email address for questions Ian virtually impossible. If you send an email to the HR contact you may find you get some kind of standard form letter which is generally useless.

It was quite a bit easier interviewing at Oracle than other places I have worked. I was friends with the hiring manager and believe that had something to do with getting an offer.

Not hard, but I was a rehire.

Similar to most tier 1 tech companies

Very good and above average.

It’s generally market competitive

it’s ok. other larger tech companies do pay more though.

It’s quite competitive and all carry a heavy workload. 50 plus hours are easily reached.

8-10 hrs a day

Vibe is good! Average of 9-10 hrs working time.

Very high level leadership on the one hand side only and then some micromanaging from middle management on the other hand.

Below average.

Mktg is a positive exeption at Oracle, they are great.

There are hundreds of teams and products, most are all disconnected, so it depends. My team is really very experienced, full of engineers that have been around for 15-20 years or more. Work is very pragmatic and purpose driven, we are self-managed as there are very few managers. Being a senior group it is expected we know what needs to be done, and we are left to it. For the most part, I like this.

Siloed. Inefficient.

Well balanced

No amount of onboarding and training can prepare you for the meat grinder that a sales position becomes. Front-line management try very hard to intercept what is a systemic political dog-eat-dog company culture.

It's a great place for mediocre people to coast for a few years while they build up cred from having a big software company on their resume. The good people are leaving in droves.

Fear and pressure

Stability

Working in a downtown area and having a wide range of problems (and time scales) to work on.

Take leadership

My leader has people with too many credentials and experience for the jobs they do. They are under utilized.

Coworkers are great

RETIREMENT PENSION

A Marketing Department that generates leads for sales.

There is no rise salary. Culture of pay secrecy

1 Week. Oracle onboarding process is figure it out or else.

Depends on the group, but you generally have to do almost everything yourself.

No real company culture as the leadership does not lead by example. Very hard for a culture to be created. Very results driven and all is ROI focused. Money is basically the culture...

Make money is number one for both culture and values.

Very rarely happening and usually nothing exciting. This is an area that needs to be improved a lot!

Outings? At Christmas, my very small team was allowed some money for lunch and a movie day, but right back to work.

No pets allowed. Very unfortunate!

As far as I know, not allowed. Previously, before Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, the campus always had dogs around. It was awesome!

Meet as many people face to face as possible and start building your internal network quickly.

Learn all procedures, and learn all about university, to get certificated or just learn new things, there is a lot of info non-oracle

Nothing special, it’s all industry standard.

Benefits decent but no growth or transfer opportunities.

Carefully choose territory. Know who to work with and who to avoid. Keep your deals under wraps or Risk reps from other parts of the company trying to steal your customer budget or interfere with your sales cycle

Patience and a sense of humor

Not well. I used to have a distinguished engineer that liked my work and took me on as a mentee. He seemed to have sway at keeping me "well fed" and recognized for my work. He has left, and I don't get much of the career growth help now.

It is a combination of function delivered and bugs found. We track metrics and compare to peers. The best are rewarded, bullshit gets you no where.

As long as I get my work done and attend the meetings I need to, my schedule is completely flexible.

Not very, you get marked for missing your numbers if you take off for dr appointments, etc.

data structures heap, tree, linked list, dictionary algorithms programming language concepts like overloading, overriding, inheritance, polymorfism, imperative vs declarative, compiled vs interpreted vs language virtual machines. experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, source control management, binary repositories, containers.

The usual

1 hour

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