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Senior Database Administrator
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for 4 years
January 6, 2016
Guadalajara, Jalisco
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Benefits are good: free coffee, fruit, juice, vacation days, and discounts on several restaurants.

You can take some of the Oracle courses for free (no charge to your org/division), and if you want to take any paid course, management usually approves it.

Flexibility to work from home when required.

Also, at least for my department, we used to install/upgrade latest RDBMS versions, which is very challenging and allows learning new things faster.

Cons

Salary hikes are very difficult. You can spend 3-4 years with no hikes, so it is better to join the company with a very good salary if you want to stay for a long time. And if you get one, it usually won’t be a substantial one. I have heard of cases where it is better to leave the company and be rehired a year later to get a better salary.

Advice to Management

Invest more on employee salary raises. A lot of good employees go disappointed because of this and leave the company.

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