Balance between work time and personal time is not very good. People have lost sense of personal life. Everyone is afraid to lose their jobs and works very hard to show they are better than the rest. By having so many new people there seems to be a longer learning curve experienced overall as a whole and may have added to some of the turn-over consistently experienced in some departments. I no longer have charm in working for Oracle.

I think as a consequence of the size of the company, there are a lot of employees. Forget about getting promotions/working up a career path - they actually have absolutely no formal promotion policy. The management team has run out of good sales people due to layoffs or bad management policies. When they need to cut they cut and it also has a hard time keeping the good employees due to layoff practices.

You know, overall it seems that there are no massive layoffs at Oracle -- while this is true, there indeed are layoffs -- but since they are happening a division at a time -- it is not making headlines. Just had a few friends/co-workers that got laid off in different areas.