Cloud Deal Management • Former Employee
Pros: - Good benefits package.
- Lots of great employees that really care about their work ethic (management excluded).
- Small 'team' buildings/floors on a large campus with creek, ponds, and mountain views.
- Quite a bit of shared office space for longer-term employees (not everyone in a cube).
- Good learning experience to take to your next job.
Cons: - Inequitable pay for the same job duties/IC code; there is a $20k+/year difference in people's salaries doing the same job!
- Raises/bonuses are non-existent, so if you've been there 1.5 years, you WILL be training a new hire making $10k - $15k more a year than you are. I was constantly told, "Leave Oracle for at least a year and make more somewhere else, then come back and you'll make more than most managers that have stayed the whole time and been promoted."
- Promotions are often given to those less talented (often the complainers and 'problem children' are promoted). Even IF you get a promotion, you will NOT get a raise with that promotion. If you are one of the lucky ones that does get a raise at 4-7 years of employment, then look forward to a whopping 3% or less raise. Oracle doesn't keep up with the high cost of living in Bozeman.
- Management wants you to drink the Kool-Aid; they really don't want your ideas or suggestions, regardless of what they say to you. Be forewarned: if you do give suggestions, consider yourself with a target on your back.
- Work-life balance is non-existent (be prepared, at quarter ends, to work 12-16 hour days, weekends, holidays).