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3.4
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2 User reviews
Oracle is one of the biggest software companies in world, the name Oracle is almost synonymous with database, but Oracle is into many other product categories.




Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

Overall rating (weighted)
3.4
Satisfaction with Salary, Hikes & Bonus
4.5
Nature/Quality of work
3.0
Onsite Opportunities
1.0
Work Environment
4.5
Job Security
4.5
User reviews

Oracle - Lots of Freedom, Thursday, 08 November 2007

Written by kum2001   -  View all my reviews  - #1 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
3.5
Satisfaction with Salary, Hikes & Bonus
4.0
Nature/Quality of work
4.0
Onsite Opportunities
1.0
Work Environment
5.0
Job Security
5.0

Me and My important observations about this "Company"
My Tech/Functional Expertise: IT-Programing
My Total Experience (In Years): 2 to 5
Fresher Salary (CTC in Lakhs per annum): 6.50
My Recommendation: Yes "I love my Company"
I have worked/been working with this company: Yes
Comments:
Brand Value: Good Recognition

Career growth and onsite opportunities? NO onsite opportunity, no rapid promotion. But it will add value in your career.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department? Very good work env. No daily attendance required. All depend on your manager. You can communicate with your native language. Team meeting happen every month (like get together). So good interactions.

Work pressure/Work – life balance. It varies with projects. You get enough time to finish your work so not much worry.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work: CTC will be high but in-hand monthly will not be much. SuperAnnuation and gratuity eat a lot, which you will get after 3 yrs and 5 yrs resp. You will get good work here but it depends on the team.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? Product dev.

Job security. Good

Some positives and negatives of the company. You will be branded but may not satisfied with monthly in-hand as compared to your CTC.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? This is a good company to settle yourself as you have lot of freedom in work.



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Oracle - Hyderabad, Thursday, 08 November 2007

Written by Mahi09   -  View all my reviews  - Top 10 Reviewer

Overall rating (weighted)
3.3
Satisfaction with Salary, Hikes & Bonus
5.0
Nature/Quality of work
2.0
Onsite Opportunities
1.0
Work Environment
4.0
Job Security
4.0

Me and My important observations about this "Company"
My Tech/Functional Expertise: IT-Databases • IT-ERP/CRM/SCM
My Total Experience (In Years): 2 to 5
Fresher Salary (CTC in Lakhs per annum): 5.80
Best & Worst thing about this company: Salary is good,nature of work is not that good
My Recommendation: Yes "I love my Company"
I have worked/been working with this company: Yes
Comments:
Oracle Application Group, which makes products (business suite) like Oracle Finance, HRMS has a development center in Hyderabad. The center started doing work related to Oracle Forms and now is into product development using Oracle Application Framework (a tool which writes code in Java, much like VB does).
We caught up with one Oracle guy to know more about Oracle. The followings are based on input from folks we know in Oracle

Salary: 5/5.5 lakhs per annum. Oracle is one of the top paymasters; it pays extremely well at the fresher level. The salaries are different for computer and non-computer science students. It used to pay higher salary for students from top engineering colleges, now it has stopped visiting some of the top IITs because of higher attrition level of students from these colleges. Oracle Hiring Strategy places strong importance on technical skills, it is based on the simple philosophy that if a student is interested in computer science he would have a strong knowledge of technical concepts and therefore would be happy with the work.

The salary growth is also good at Oracle; it has been giving 6 monthly salary hikes and bonus. Appraisals and career growth depend on the team, there are time-based promotions and in some cases depending on manager and performance of employee promotion can be given before the stipulated time.

Training: Oracle gives a boot camp training for 3 weeks, it may not be very beneficial but you always have reference material and google to solve your technical issues.

Work Environment: Oracle gives flexible work hours to its employees and often the deadlines are based on discretion of employees. Manager to employee communication is average; an employee may not need to talk to his manager on regular basis once he is assigned some work, so does not necessarily develop a very good rapport with the manager. One good thing is Oracle provides all facilities, which the employee needs, he may work from home if he wants, the company sponsors laptop and Internet facility.

Brand Value: Oracle is one of the most known brands in India as well as abroad and enjoys a good will at the college campuses because of the salary it pays.

Work Load: Workload in Oracle is reasonable and in some cases lower then other companies. Pressure can be more sometimes because of the nature of product development work.

Job Security: It did shelve few employees in the past but as the step didn’t go down well with the employees, the company has decided not to fire anyone in India Development Center.

Job Profile: Job profile is not so great, work becomes monotonous after a while, and an employee gets typecasted in a role. Not much technical work is there, the domain is restricted to Oracle Framework, which is of no use outside Oracle. For people in functional roles, like say ‘Oracle Finance’ skill enhancement is more.

Co-worker competence: All cannot be geniuses, its average.

Role of HR: HR is not very active; it is less enthusiastic when it comes to taking initiatives.

Onsite Opportunities: No

Bond for employees: No

Overall: Oracle is great if salary is the only consideration, but not so great when it comes to work quality.



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2. Applications Engineer      By This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Oracle has too many things under its cover. Many of the divisions suck at the quality of work, but at product development org (there are only 2 of some 25 orgs inside oracle) that develops products like Database, Siebel,PeopleSoft etc. work is awesome. Oter divisions are like service companieslike IBM Global(not ISL), Infy, SAP and therefore work may not be good as such, like in Oracle Applications (Consulting) division. If someone gets to work in prod dev, its a must join..amazing products and technologies..too many things to learn. Other divisions..depends on ur luck. Ofcourse, in prod div, roadside private college people are not recruited as freshers..they go mostly into places like consulting, support etc. Salary is not very good though in prod dev(given that consulting people also earn nearby figures), but similar to Yahoo etc. So, the bottom line is: 
If u r from a roadside private college..just join in. Noting better will happen in ur career. 
 
If u r from a decent insti like IIT or at least places like IT-BHU, Jadavpur University, BITS Pilani, NIT Tricthy etc..consider all ur options like the division u will join in etc. Salary is comparable to most other decent companies but not grtt. 
 
In prod dev, work pressure is pretty big..bonus also is similarly good though. Hikes are not decent, but there will be regular corrections that will bring u again to the top of the heap(top 20 percentile I would say) in the market.
1.       By OraMan
Oracle is not as rosy as u think.... has great work environment and amenities, but HIKE is terrible.....

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