Oracle

You can learn Oracle from Oracle, with huge scope for picking new technologies and doing certifications.

Good work culture, unless you are unfortunate to work under a bad manager.

Good health benefits.

No transparency in HR policies and management policies. Though the policy says you are free to move across Line of Businesses (LOB), this will never happen unless you are too lucky. You join an LOB and mostly you have to retire from there.

Work style is mostly like a government organization, routine work throughout the decades, promotions based on the number of years of experience irrespective of your contributions.

Good compensations are history. Day by day, the board is becoming so greedy that they indirectly gave a clue that there will not be any market correction till 2013, and it did not happen from 2008. The worst part is they are recruiting, and the new joiners are getting better paid and offered better positions. So, you may have to train a person who does not know anything about the job but is drawing twice the amount of your salary.

The lower and middle management are just puppets.

No work-from-home policy and no transportation to the office.

In one word, Oracle is a golden trap. It looks green and gold when you are joining, but soon you will realize that you are rotting.

To lower and middle management:

• Live on your intellect; do not be a puppet in the hands of senior management. After all, we are human beings.

To senior management:

• Realize that an organization is not a set of tools and policies, but it is the employees. If you do not have good employees, you cannot meet quality standards.

To Larry Ellison:

Stop being greedy. You are not going to take the money when you die. Gain some respect from your own employees. Please, please, please be fair. Your company is decaying from the inside.