Not for ambitious developers - Senior Software Engineer Oracle Employee Review

2.0
Jul 21, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work (probably forever). Ability to do almost nothing without anyone noticing it.

Cons

Impossible to grow for senior developers. There were nothing I could do to grow. Even direct question about it to a manager was left without a response. As a result when you ask for salary raise you need to "justify" it. Managers did nothing to keep me (and some other developers/testers) when they saw we were about to leave. I have very big doubts a quality and consequences in one of the projects. Many things there were done to achieve very short terms goals sacrificing long term goals. From technology perspective it was very easy development (so, will not give anyone real benefits in a CV). The culture is also broken (it can be different in other teams). Once I directly asked my team members not to share some information to management but at the end it was shared. Management is not able to change many things that were asked by a team. Most of them came after sprint retrospectives. So, be prepared to stay alone with that. Promotions from developers or QAs to managers looked very strange. Many team members were unsatisfied with people who was promoted and who wasn't.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Plenty of opportunity to earn well over $100,000.00 with Standby pay and OT. Plus, mileage reimbursement of $.70 a mile.

Cons

Sometimes tedious work below what I would consider for an experienced FE such as hard drive destruction bin audits and checking in equipment.

4.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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