Horrible on call rotation - Senior Software Engineer (Ic4) Oracle Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2025
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Pros

They respect senior engineers. Management does listen to and seek out input. The design phase of a project is fairly well done. The salary was good, as are the stock payouts.

Cons

Sadly you never get past the design phase, and further you have to do it between the gaps of operational fires. The on-call rotation is absolutely miserable. I once received 100 pages in a week, and I did not have a single week where I was not woken up in the middle of the night for a pointless and non customer affecting page. Further, if you are a US citizen you will be put on two separate on-call rotations (a second one for their gov clouds) and management does nothing to help you line up the rotations. Prior to being hired I was told there would be a single one call rotation if six people. Shortly after I was on two rotations of five people which often landed me on call twice in a month. Management was not forthcoming with this information before I was hired even tho I asked quite a bit about the rotation. If you are thinking of going to OCI make sure you ask very specific questions. To make it even more painful there is no interest in any kind of long term investment to make these alarms less frequent. They seem to be happy just throwing people at it without regard for the toll it takes on them.

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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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