Does Oracle pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Oracle employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Oracle. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Oracle?

60% of Oracle employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Oracle 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Oracle?

Software Engineer (1929) , Senior Software Engineer (1349) , Associate Consultant (1073) , Senior Consultant (1045) , Account Executive (1025) , Account Manager (989) , Principal Consultant (792) , Principal Software Engineer (760) , Sales Representative (740) , Member Of Technical Staff (721) , Business Development Consultant (720) , Software Developer (717) , Applications Developer (694) , Consultant (694) , Applications Engineer (636)

What are the pros of working at Oracle according to real employee reviews?

"Good work life balance given so that you become lazy and settle down for less and compromise" ((in 8397 reviews)); "The benefits are good; it is nice to have access to the Oracle University classes." ((in 3537 reviews)); "Enjoyed working with the marketing team and the people there are great and easy to get along with." ((in 2423 reviews)); "work culture is good and your work is seen by all the people in the hierarchy" ((in 1861 reviews)); "work from home and flexible timings" ((in 1565 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Oracle according to real employee reviews?

"I was hired on a low salary and made my way up to being a very useful asset." ((in 2374 reviews)); "No promotions and no bonuses (for promotions you need to go out of the company and come back)" ((in 1140 reviews)); "Managers seem to be caught up in politics and corruption quite frequently and are frequently bad at managing and very good at micromanagement." ((in 1054 reviews)); "Advancement and avoiding frequent layoffs depends solely on politics and relationships with those above you." ((in 656 reviews)); "poor leadership; managed by a spreadsheet and billable utilization with no other considerations; just a number" ((in 446 reviews))

What are employees saying about Oracle layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Oracle layoffs and their outlook for job security at Oracle in 2026.

Oracle reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(59,809 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

42% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.4

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.2

Compensation and benefits

3.1

Senior management

Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 59,809 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oracle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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60K reviews

4.0

Jun 12, 2008

Database Systems Development at Oracle

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

There are incredibly smart and talented software developers from my perspective in the database division. If you like developing and maintaining systems software, there are many (and sometimes too many!) challenging problems to tackle in the database. If you like to learn and expand your horizons, there are many database components, database internals, algorithms, and optimizations for you to investigate. Developers are generally willing to share their knowledge, unless they are too busy with short-term deadlines. Management keeps politics to a minimum in the database division.

Cons

The company and database division have grown in size significantly in the last decade and have had creeping bureaucracy. Programming-in-the-large is never an easy task.

3.0

Jun 12, 2008

Company as a whole is moving in the right direction, even if its toting 50,000 disgruntled employees.

Principal software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Oracle is taking over the enterprise software world, so if you want to work for the new leader its the place to be. Compensation is average to below average. Seems like the overall mentality is one of "clock in, get some stuff done, clock out". Very little drive. Some people view this as a plus.

Cons

Outsourcing and globalization. if you live in the US you wont be working for oracle in 10 years. Nobody cares if you are here or not, its very difficult to work your way up the chain.

4.0

Jun 12, 2008

Good team atmosphere; smart and pleasant people doing exciting work; internal processes could use some improvement...

Senior product manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of exciting work getting done by smart and pleasant people. Good team atmosphere even with teams operating virtually across the globe.

Cons

Having joined from a small acquisition, it has been very difficult to get up to speed on what's required to do my job. Getting information about other teams/parts of company to do my work is very difficult. Internal aps and info sources are inscrutable - requiring much time to mine. Even long time veterans don't know much about how to get essential info. Raises were delayed by months this past year and were not retroactive to the beginning of the new evaluation year. Bonuses were very small to nothing for my team, which is a pretty strong one. As in many large companies, some people seem to have very little to do, while others, such as my team, have deliverables and deadlines that wouldn't be possible with 5 X's the number of people. Technology supporting internal processes is flakey and training on it is abysmal.

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