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Is Oracle a great place to work?

Software Engineer IV
Former Employee
Worked at Oracle for 20 years
September 27, 2017
Broomfield, Colorado
3.0
Negative Outlook
Pros

Benefits are good. Salaries are competitive.

Management seems sound. I'd say it's reasonably well run, but the money rules business decisions. They are fairly cut-throat; if your group isn't making money, it will go. This is in the positive section since, hey, it's a business. They are there to make money; what do you expect?

Cons

Being money-oriented, there's some feeling that they should be a bit more loyal and think about the drag on sales that products bring. Also, on a "current" note, they had 3 large layoffs in 2017, affecting a few thousand people mainly in Solaris, Servers (Sun Acquisition), and Tape (Storagetek Acquisition). So, I'd be wary of going into those areas; they "seem" to be going into maintenance mode at best.

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