Just curious. Why are Oracle's Glassdoor Review Scores so high? Most people I know are disgruntled and stressed out. Yet, Oracle sports a top notch Glassdoor score (anything over 3 is good and we are sitting at 3.4 right now). Just curious if someone would be able to explain this paradox.
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as employee of over 20 years, oracle wants cheap labor which leads to poor products put out in the market place. oracle is a software company not cloud company!
Because, believe it or not, there are worse places to work. A mid 3 is an average score. Those "best places to work" have scores above 4. And yes, there are places that score in the two's
Because of the good severance packages they give. Looking forward to it.
Because most who use/frequent Glassdoor are usually GenX and under. They have a different experience at Oracle and have different outlooks in life/job.
Here, at this forum, it's mostly a embittered laid-off circle of baby-boomers who sat 10-20y at Oracle.
The higher score are accumulated and averaged over a long period of time. Trust me, Oracle was a super great company, till LE decided to go on retirement mode delegating the responsibilities to 3 non-compatible people- SC, MH and TK. They all showed LE a rosy picture but had nothing tangible to showcase when he actually dived deep into their work. TK was quick to sense that ship was sinking and jumped ships, and in the past few weeks MH and SC have disposed a large chunk of their shares.
Training new people is not a problem. That is how I learned. Oracle employee training was awful. Watch this video. Now watch this one. And this one and that one the other one. I thought my head would explode. Here is the problem with oracle. They do the bare minimum on EVERYTHING.
Oracle does not 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.