Avoid OCI - Anonymous employee Oracle Employee Review

2.0
Nov 10, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Oracle has many good organizations, offers career development and challenging work, ability to work from home, good volunteer programs and good benefits.

Cons

OCI is a company unto itself, is not representative of Oracle as a whole. The recommendation from someone within is stay away. Leadership is hostile and uses scare and gotcha leadership tactics. Don’t be fooled by the values, they aren’t practicing them. There’s no mentoring, or support from management, in fact Jae Evans creates a hostile work place within the org but if you’ve read up on Clay, poor picks in leadership aren’t a surprise. Management turn over and reorganization is insane so setting up performance goals at the beginning of the year and reviewing with your third manager the end of the year is pointless. And having your fourth manager in a year try to speak to your promotional story while they’re still trying to figure out what you do, how the org is structured this week, and most importantly how they can land grab within the moving landscape, well that doesn’t lend itself to career progression for you, but maybe that’s the point.

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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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