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Oracle is not as good as it seems

Senior QA Analyst
Current Employee
Has worked at Oracle for less than 1 year
August 21, 2008
Santa Clara, California
2.0
Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEO
Pros

Good compensation package, and Oracle has good name recognition.

Cons

My immediate manager and director do not respect the people who work for them.

They are not willing to take advice and others' opinions.

It is like a dictatorship.

The group that I work in desperately needs more people, but for some reason, we are unable to get more people.

This problem has existed for over two years now.

Because of the lack of people, we have to do extra work.

When some of us complained about the extra work, we were lectured on and given a bad rating on our performance review stating that we are complainers.

Furthermore, we got punished with the bonus, even though our group made money.

In addition, when I wanted to take a vacation for more than a week, I was given a hard time, and my manager actually told me to try to delay my vacation or cut it short.

This is fine if we were in a crunch time, but we weren't.

After I refused to delay my vacation or cut it short, I was told to bring my laptop on my vacation and leave my cell phone number with my manager.

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