Pros
Cordial, friendly colleagues who care
Cons
The Oracle EDU practice is rife with cliques and favoritism. A few Oracle directors who started out of college and have rode leadership coat tails and have been deemed rising stars and are preordained to be MD’s manage staffing for projects and initiatives and place their favorite resources and friends in the most visible roles to give them leadership exposure and ensure their own projects are staffed with the best talent while all other projects get the bottom of the barrel. This should be a function of HR / Talent not community leads and is a clear conflict of interest. If you’re a subject matter expert with the most experience you will be passed over for opportunities while lesser equipped resources who are the favorite pets of the MD’s are touted and their experience grossly exaggerated as if we can speak it into fruition that “Jane/John is a rock star”. The practice has been bleeding employees to Deloitte’s new EDU practice and lots of folks have left because of the cliques and favoritism but leadership turns a blind eye, is unapologetic and generally passive and unwilling to address the issue. Management projects double digit growth but due to the cliques and favoritism and lack of client focus Deloitte is crushing Huron in the market.