So, I exposed all the management issues in Oracle on my employee survey and was laid off! I know for a fact that it would never happen if I did not do this. But Oracle's management issues needed to be documented, and I've decided not to take this to attorneys as I need to let it go and move on with my career. What I witnessed was harassment, no support for disability issues for my husband and lack of payment for bonuses and career progression/promotion that I was 3x told I was in process for. Oracle's lack of managing talent, promotion and discrimination is intolerable. I will move on to my next role, but I will never go back to Oracle given this experience in my career.
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I def believe it’s anonymous cause I thrashed my GBU mgmt every year I was there. I was there 15…..and I never said one good thing about my GBU mgmt cause they discriminated against younger people and they were just horrible people.
@em this is the correct answer. I knew exactly who said what just based on grievances they had already aired and writing style.
@c4 You can take the survey on a personal computer? I thought it had to be on oracles computer, in which case you can’t control the vpn and ip address.
Honestly, who the f**k cares??
YV is anonymous but as a manager I can say we can attribute comments back to individuals based on their style and issues they reference, which are sometimes highly unique to an individual.
I am a former Oracle’s manager. The survey is anonymous but you receive the anonymized answers if you have at least 7 people in your team. So my suggestion is: if you really want to respond to the survey, don’t put any written comments.
Good, off you trot then
Your manager knows your communication style and also the issues you may have pointed out in the past. They can easily figure out whose responses they're looking at.
It is anonymous and it’s not.
Responders authenticate SSO so it’s attributable … to that extent NOT anonymous.
But the external provider does not divulge responses back to Oracle as attributable … so it IS anonymous.
Individual managers only see their team responses if they are above a certain number of staff (e.g. 7 or 8) so comments in small teams are not shared (so managers cannot guess who said what when they only have a couple of people).
Everyone is free to believe there’s a conspiracy to attribute comments outside the authorised model, but in the authorised model Oracle does not get the data at granular level that identifies responder.
@bx Most people with low privacy brain use the same IP address on their device or at home for a LONG TIME, companies can easily find out whos using that IP address. That's why the VPN business works.
@be Can’t it always be traced to the IP address it was submitted from, and isn’t keystroke and or screen always being recorded?
Hate to bust all your bubbles - but it IS anonymous. There are stringent controls in place and I have been party in the past to senior leadership calls analysing the data. The comments are clearly visible, but cannot be attributed to a particular person.
The question you should be asking is the follow up on these. Again, there is a strong desire to recognise the feedback but in the case of such things as compensation, there is never anything that can truly be done due to corporate (salary, bonus etc...).
To the OP -> sorry about your situation but a lot of good people got offed and I don't believe it's correlated to the survey.
It's not anonymous, it never was. This shouldn't be news to anyone.
OP, why would they make it anonymous? They don't really want your input but it is politically correct to ask like they care. BTW, if someone tells you the check is in the mail...it's not. Look at the bright side, you got to tell them what you thought.
Don’t worry about going back as Oracle most likely won’t take you in anyway.
It never is.
When they say theres a complicated layer of protection for anonymity they'll find ways to deanonymize it.