Negotiate your salary HIGH, as you'll never see a raise!
Negotiate your salary HIGH, as you'll never see a raise!
- 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.
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Inequitable pay for the same job duties/IC code; there is a $20k+/year difference in people's salaries doing the same job!
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Work-life balance is non-existent (be prepared, at quarter ends, to work 12-16 hour days, weekends, holidays).
- Treat hard-working employees fairly with promotions and raises.
- Get rid of the bad eggs; stop promoting them!
- Stop catering to every whim from Sales and realize your employees should not be treated like slaves.
- Stop telling your employees that their 'bonus' is to work overtime and holidays and consider that a 'raise.' That is not a raise nor a bonus; that is simply being paid what we are owed, all while losing time from our families.
- Give internal promotions to those deserving. Stop bringing in your 'friends' or past co-workers from other companies that have no business being in management.
- Stop blocking excellent employees from transferring to another department. You should be helping us grow our careers, not blocking our advancements/transfers because you want to keep us on your team.
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