Minneapolis, MN - Not THE Oracle - just re-badged Retek. And stay away from a group called "S.E." - Applications Developer Oracle Employee Review

3.0
30 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Looks good on your resume and in your network. People look up to the Oracle name. After all it is one of the benchmarks of progress in information technology field.

Cons

This review is only about the Minneapolis location. There is really not much about "Oracle" but just an old company called "Retek" that was bought by oracle in one of its shopping sprees. so a lot of old leftover culture (not good) has been retained from the retek days. Some manager are just self centered egoists who spend the whole year only caring about what they can show to their directors and VPs as their accomplishment at the effort and expense of their employees They are of authoritative attitude and partial. This is especially true with "SE" (sustaining engineering)managers that first give a lecture on how there have been orders from teh "top" to reduce work from home yet they would be the ones who work from home the most.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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