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Ok place to work, great place to chill out

Director, Software Development
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for less than 1 year
September 8, 2010
Redwood City, California
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Oracle provides a great work-life balance, almost tipping the scale towards life rather than work. As a large company, it offers opportunities to work in different technology areas.

Cons

Upper management (at least mine) is clueless in setting the vision/strategy.

There is a lot of politics, which may be the case in any large company.

Oracle seems to be heading towards a Comp Associates-like holding company strategy of growth-by-acquisition rather than organic growth by building innovative products.

Advice to Management

Hire better business development people at the top to define the vision and strategy. Strong engineers and architects don't make for strong visionary business leaders.

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