Oracle reviews

-Despite the people generally being excellent. There is a rather large disparity in experience. For some people this is their graduate job, for others; they’ve had many years of experience prior to joining. This needs to be better streamlined. They need to decide whether this is a graduate scheme or if it’s just an junior level position. The result of this was that there are some bright eyed graduates who develop massive egos. And some experienced hires feeling as if their prior experience was worthless. -Furthermore, the recruiters seem to sometimes misunderstand the scheme in its entirety. Many people are under the impression that said field position is guaranteed if they perform well. However, the unfortunate matter of fact is that it boils down total chance most of the time. By this I mean the chance of a field position opening up when you’re ready is completely random. Naturally this results in much frustration for some people, as they feel stuck. Which is only made worse by the zero promotion policy within the department. (Which makes sense considering how the whole concept of SCC Malaga is to cut costs.)

1. Oracle has no company culture. It's a sales-driven company with questionable management that looks at employees as livestock and masks their lack of innovation by buying new products somebody else developed. 2. The salaries are negotiated once - when you join, then the only way to get promoted is through threatening the company to leave. 3. Oracle Apps suck. We're past the age of the glamorous database, engineering-driven company. Now acquisitions are made on weekly basis to fill the 'gaps' in Oracle's portfolio - then these products are sold to the customers as part of the bigger package while they are only poorly integrated with the rest of the stack. And then they'd go EOL as soon as the hype around it calms down. Cloud has only accelerated this technique. 4. Management is young and inexperienced and often promoted to the position thanks to nothing else but their networking skills. This ends up in very poor people management, lack of decision transparency, misunderstanding where the market goes, inability to negotiate with decisions of their bosses, producing remarks that kill the team spirit, caring only about being known in the higher management, and loosing team members by under appreciating talented individuals (until they decide to leave - and we get back to point 2). There are only few managers that are respected in the organisation. 5. Sales trainings are very bullish, praising Oracle as number one and making sure Amazon looks bad. That's a hard one to swallow for some more ethical folks.