Oracle

Good pay. Stable job. Aggressive and action-oriented environment. Executive management is great.

Middle management sucks! Too many VPs and too much title inflation in the company. Product development is not assimilating the acquisitions well, while the sales and other sides of the business are doing a much better job handling acquisitions.

The company is getting too big, and the management pool is very poor. The HR department does nothing but very basic stuff. People development is also very poor. Good management does not exist in the company anymore. The Apps product development organization has grown like a weed with no justification. If software is commoditizing, we cannot see that in the way software development is managed in the company. If you want to aspire for your company to be managed like GE, you better start reading Welch's and Bossidy's books because I cannot see any trace of those best practices in the company.