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Pros and cons

Principal Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for 20 years
September 30, 2015
New York, New York
3.0
Pros

Good healthcare. Flexible working arrangements (sometimes too flexible for teamwork).

Cons
  1. Pay - One tiny pay raise in five years. Plus, my salary is 20% below the Oracle average, thereby effectively taking a pay cut with inflation, etc.

  2. Vacation - Vacation does not accrue after 18 days. Plus, this year, we are having mandatory time off at Christmas.

  3. Constant chipping away at little things (like the above forced vacation, plus taking away expenses for home internet connection) to save a small amount of money just alienates huge swathes of staff.

  4. Management has no clue on how to motivate the folks below and only cares about their own stock options and bonuses. We have seen way too many good technical people promoted to manager only to be a disaster in that role.

Advice to Management

I doubt management is reading this, but they need to motivate staff better and also pay a bit better outside of Silicon Valley. Oh, and actually learn how to manage.

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