Oracle reviews

Their tools were bad. Oracle CPQ was used for quoting and was a VERY bad tool. Cerner used far superior Salesforce. When they ported over to Oracle CPQ the 1st time (when Cerner was still on its own), they had to back out in favor of Salesforce. The 2nd time, after the Cerner acq, everything ground to a halt. It a bit improved, a very buggy tool and Oracle processes were horrible. When doing quotes, pricing always needed someone else's prior approval even when a tiny discount was given. It took sometimes days to get approval...which is not what Cerner customers were used to. (Where's my quote?!?) The approval tool was DAS where the people did not know the products for which they were doing approvals. Even $5K-$10K deals with 5% or less discounts sometimes had to be approved by the office of the CEO. Of course, as they laid everyone they could off, the financial part of the severance wasn't bad (but not great). But, they offered NO outplacement services...and I mean NONE. Health Insurance coverage ended at the end of your last day with Oracle. You were offered one extra month of subsidized healthcare if you continued through COBRA. Siemens and Panasonic offered to include RIFFed employees on the company health plan for 6 months before they had to go to COBRA. I would think the management at a company as prestigious as Oracle would be embarrassed at that since Oracle's net income for 2025 was $12.443B (an 18.88% + from 2024... with an $831B market cap with shares trading ~$290/share. I guess they couldn't spare the extra $45M on RIFFed employee Health Insurance (0.005% of their market cap) to save their reputation. Also, no raises were given for 2 or 3 years. Finally, employees in good standing (rehire-box='yes') were told 'hiring freeze' so you couldn't interview elsewhere within the company...even though people were being actively recruited and hired at that time.

Haven't had a raise/bonus/RSU's/ANYTHING in 2 years, not even cost of living raise, despite good reviews. Nor have many of my teammates I've spoken to privately. Have heard from multiple sources Oracle just "doesn't give raises". Have also heard promotion is difficult to impossible. It seems Oracle would rather have people quit out of frustration so they can re-hire at a lower salary vs giving their employees raises.