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Good company to work for in terms of work-life balance, doing your job, collecting a paycheck, and working on your hobby

Applications Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for less than 1 year
March 15, 2010
Redwood City, California
3.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Flex working hours. Working from home allowed. Competitive pay. Good work-life balance.

Cons

No avenues for promotion.

No avenues for salary increase or bonuses.

Upper management makes all decisions; engineers are helpless.

Too family-oriented; not recommended for people fresh out of college.

Too little work, which makes you feel useless.

Not innovative enough.

Poor communication of project goals and feature sets to engineers by upper management.

Engineers feeling tossed around from project to project.

Advice to Management

Promote employees based on performance, not politics.

Let engineering make decisions too.

Communicate project goals to engineers faster.

Listen to engineers' complaints and address them instead of ignoring them.

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