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Good Pay, Terrible Culture

Applications Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for 2 years
August 7, 2013
Bengaluru, Karnataka
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

To start with, they paid a good salary, and mostly all of it came in hand as I was from a premier college.

Nothing good to talk about here, much. Those onsites, I don't know how they are satisfied so much.

This company pays in actuals for onsite people, that's what the policy says.

Cons

Well, too many to count.

Work culture: The worst I have heard. You do not even have to compare it to Google or FB; Infosys and TCS would do the job.

Hike: Is average 10%. 2012 (2013, they said it will be less).

Management: Do not care, simply. Give you training on something and tell you to work on something else; no sync between managers either.

Don't listen to you, whatever you say. I had the personal experience of chasing two managers for 3-4 months for a team change and then finally had to resign.

Do not be fooled by the brand of Oracle. The benefits they have, OFSS does not provide.

HR: Always good with passing the buck. If you want relocation benefits written in your offer letter, they won't give you and come up with some or the other excuse.

Work culture: Don't even get me started on that – no team meeting, no team outings, no lunch, nothing, nothing at all.

Advice to Management

Please change the way you operate and manage the teams.

Let there be more transparency.

Please treat the employees as assets.

You might have created the product, but they are the ones who now develop and support it. If they leave, you might hire more, but at the end of the day, you have to train them, and it will take time.

You might think that Flexcube is a golden egg on which you can survive for generations. But face the facts: you undersell it to third-world countries and have no major presence in developed countries.

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