Oracle

Oracle is always leading.

Aggressive culture.

Big company benefits.

Surrounded by smart people.

Upper management has their act together.

Sales organization is world class.

Great gym if you have the time to use it.

HR is disorganized. Appraisal, bonus, and stock are all on different cycles, so they cannot be linked together.

There is always cost-cutting to meet margins.

Although you can do more with less in the US, the emphasis is to hire in lower-cost areas to save money. This is when you are really making the US employees work twice as hard to manage local and abroad resources.

It's a top-down approach with less innovation from the bottom up. It is a hierarchy-driven culture.

Synchronize HR/people processes. It hurts morale and sets up the manager for failure and disgruntled employees.