Oracle

• Oracle consists of a lot of acquired startups which absolutely don't conform to the stuffy corporate image Oracle has.
• Incredible work-life balance.
• Above-average pay.
• Legacy groups (DB, MySQL, Java) still have some of the brightest minds in the entire industry.
• Extremely large scale offers unique opportunities.
• Remote work.
• Company-paid conferences, training, and travel.
• Diversity and inclusion are taken seriously.

Bureaucracy. Yes, every big company has it, and yes, it's worse at Oracle.

Volatility in the cloud org has impeded aspects of critical feature development, and it remains totally uncompetitive.

Security is hamstrung by top-down corporate policies that make no sense.

"Eat your own dogfood" applies here, but Oracle internal products are awful.

No raises. Dry promotions. Dive & save offers come too late to retain talent.

You need to stop bleeding engineers by properly compensating your US employees outside of OCI, and adopt corporate legal and security policies compatible with a culture of innovation. I have witnessed your posture of legal/security risk aversion cost us multiple 8-figure deals due to the tremendous strain it puts on our ability to act on partnerships in a timely manner. The chronic failure to innovate induced by this culture poses an existential threat to our business. Retain and empower your ICs.