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Myopic, top-down culture

Software Engineering Manager
Former Employee
Worked at Oracle for 4 years
June 25, 2025
Seattle, Washington
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Competitive salary and interesting, large-scale problems.

Cons

The management chain is a series of folks promising the impossible to their manager, all the way up from line manager to C-suite. This will become your problem, either via impossible deadlines, accumulation of crushing technical debt, or whole-sale restructuring of entire orgs to facilitate a C-suite promotion or fulfill a promise to lay people off.

Also, it effectively uses stack-ranking for perf reviews. Expect to do an adequate or better job and receive a 2 if you're unlucky. As a manager, expect to be pressured to give your worst-performing-but-capable staff 2's (or most absent). There's a strange trend of people returning from sabbatical or paternity/maternity leave receiving 2's!

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
3.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
2.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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