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Oracle

I am delighted to share my positive experience working with Oracle as an AI Ops employee. Oracle has proven to be a remarkable employer, providing a supportive and engaging work environment for professionals in the field of Artificial Intelligence Operations (AI Ops). Here are the key aspects that make Oracle an exceptional employer in this domain:

Cutting-Edge AI Technology: Oracle is at the forefront of AI technology and innovation. As an AI Ops employee, I had the privilege of working with state-of-the-art AI tools and platforms developed by Oracle. The company's commitment to staying ahead in the AI field empowers employees to contribute to groundbreaking projects and work on cutting-edge solutions.

Supportive Work Culture: Oracle fosters a culture of collaboration and support. The company values the contributions of its employees and encourages knowledge sharing and cross-team collaboration. As an AI Ops employee, I had the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals from diverse backgrounds, allowing me to broaden my horizons and learn from their expertise. The supportive work culture at Oracle creates an atmosphere where employees feel valued, motivated, and inspired to deliver their best.

Professional Growth and Development: Oracle is dedicated to the professional growth and development of its employees. The company provides ample opportunities for training, upskilling, and attending industry conferences and events. As an AI Ops professional, I benefited from Oracle's commitment to nurturing talent, as I was able to enhance my skills and stay updated with the latest advancements in AI Ops through various training programs and workshops offered by the company.

Work-Life Balance: Oracle recognizes the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. The company encourages its employees to prioritize their well-being and offers flexible work arrangements, allowing for a harmonious integration of personal and professional commitments. This flexibility greatly contributes to employee satisfaction and productivity.

Leadership and Mentorship: At Oracle, I had the privilege of working under the guidance of experienced leaders and mentors who provided valuable insights and support throughout my journey. The leadership team at Oracle is accessible, approachable, and genuinely interested in the growth and success of their employees. Their guidance and mentorship played a crucial role in shaping my professional development.

Inclusive and Diverse Environment: Oracle promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace, fostering an environment that embraces different perspectives and experiences. The company values diversity as a catalyst for innovation and creativity. As an AI Ops employee, I experienced a sense of belonging and appreciation for my unique contributions.

Overall, my experience as an AI Ops employee at Oracle has been outstanding. The company's commitment to cutting-edge technology, supportive work culture, professional growth opportunities, work-life balance, leadership and mentorship, and diversity and inclusion has made it an exemplary employer in the AI Ops domain. I am proud to be part of the Oracle team and look forward to contributing to its continued success in the field of AI Ops.

While performing as a Principal Consultant role I was supporting and managing 30 plus global projects which required extensive approval through perspective local government agencies in multiple countries.  Since all of my experiences involved products that delivered functionality designed and geared for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device enterprises that encompassed human subjects, I was required to be vastly engaged in all processes of approvals and meeting the standards of the FDA, NIH, local IRB ( Investigational Review Boards), FDAMA, ICH ( International Conference on Harmonisation), WHO ( World Health Organization), Ministry of Health ( Third-world countries). In addition, I provided periodic reports and communication to the DSMB ( Data Safety Monitoring Board) a division of the Federal National Institute of Health. My previous positions at Christiana Care Health Services as an Office Manager, I had managed the Women’s OB-GYN Clinic which was designated by the US Department of Health and Social Services as the area’s primary and only Community Center designed for Women’s Health issues.
On my team once allocated a project, I worked with a project team on the customer side which consisted of anywhere from 4-8 members.   My internal team which required monitoring timelines and budgets, I would manage the CDC  (Clinical Design Consultant),  Development Team ( 1-3 team members depending on the size of the  project, Validation Team ( 1-5) depending on size. This position would also require working with the Languages, Audit and Compliance, Quality Assurance and Legal Dept among other team members as needed.
ALL of my projects at ALL times were closely monitored and scaled to adjust to project scope as well as planned using Microsoft Project  and taken into account on a weekly basis.  Project status meetings with  service managers and Business Development partners were conducted regularly.
Projects with limited funding were constantly reviewed to avoid any costly errors or overspending.
 InForm EDC ( Electronic Data Capture) and  IRT ( Interactive Response Technology) systems which I have over 10 years of experience managing, are products that were designed and built for specifications required to be managed for an example consisted of the following customer base:
 
•	The Top 10 Global CRO’s (Contract Research Organizations) 
•	The Top 20  Global Medical Device companies
•	8 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
•	17 of the 20 top U.S. and Canadian Hospitals and facilities
•	Top 14 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations 
•	20 Global Health Sciences companies 
The median base projects that I have managed were an average of $500k to $750k. The largest project I was awarded began as a $750k base start and wrapped up with a $1.25 million close at project go-live.
Mostly all of my projects were  integrated with other applications which involved  working closely and coordinating with the vendors and their teams as well as working and training the staff assigned from the  CRO’s, Labs,  Medical Device companies, Language departments,  Government officials from the Canadian projects. Design, build and conforming the system to meet the needs for all users were a priority.

Oracle's focus for consulting services has become "chargeability".  Whereas previously the focus was customer satisfaction and employee development.  Since the advent of new leadership at Oracle Consulting, the focus is now billing hours to clients.  Now each level of service has to bill a specific percentage of their weekly hours to clients regardless of how much work there is to do, and irrespective of the client's budget.  This was also implemented without good communication to clients.  Now even VPs have to submit a time card and bill time to clients, and any work performed for a client that is a fix or is part of training has to be accounted for by submitting a no-bill code which entails quite a bit of administration.  There is now an enormous administrative burden placed on people working in Oracle Consulting.  People in the lower ranks do not have enough hours in the week to meet the requirements of chargeability and complete all the admin tasks expected of them - therefore they are forced to work additional hours in order to meet these requirements.  Those that are overtime-eligible are also barred from working more than 42 hours, so they end up working the extra hours to meet the administrative requirements but not logging them.  The culture has become lackluster and there is a fear of leadership and deep concern about job security that did not used to be present.  It used to be a delightful place to work, with fun people and everyone enjoyed performing their roles for the client.  It has now become a place where we have to say "no" to clients because "that's not Oracle policy", and we have to bill clients more than we used to to meet internal targets, and we have to spend amazing amounts of time completing administrative tasks to account for all the time that we spend accomplishing.....administrative tasks.  I would say that the typical Oracle Consulting employee works at least 50 hours, some considerably more.  Also, Oracle has taken the path of not paying bonuses to the "bottom 20%" of the organization, regardless of how well they are performing.  This means that you can be doing an amazing job, but if 80% of people are perceived as doing a better job than you, there will be no bonus for you.  Along with this change, when reviewing talent, managers are forced to place at least 10% of the workforce in a low type of category even if those people are doing a good job so that leadership can then consider removing them as the lower-performing layer in that "Jack Welch" way of thinking.  If you like working upwards of 50 hours a week, are confident that you can be better than at least 20% of the workforce, are wily enough to bill at least a specific percentage of your work to clients regardless of how much work there is, enjoy filling out complicated time-cards and approval request forms, then Oracle Consulting is the place for you!  :)

Oracle is a very large company with thousands of software and hardware products and services. Overall, I would say that it's a good company to build and advance your career. The company has excellent pay and benefits once you've gotten to a senior level position.

The sales side of the company is extremely competitive and tends to lean more on the unethical and questionable side. You'll spend more time competing with other sales teams for Oracle products than actually competing with external forces. The comp structure on the sales side is crazy, but don't don't expect a solid base pay. Currently there is excessive pressure to push cloud services and cloud credits on customers. If you fight for your customer's best interests, you may get into trouble, so be careful.

The consulting side of the company is extremely understaffed, under trained, and stretched very thin. The higher up you climb in the consulting side, you more customers and products you'll have to cover. You'll spend most of your time either in pre-sales consulting support or post-sales janitor duty. A lot of consulting gigs at Oracle are horribly mismanaged and at the behest of the sales team to clean up after their poor judgement on solution positioning or on the customers dime to fix their mistakes.

The software development side can be challenging or fun, depending on which products you work on. More attention and money is given to business apps (Fusion, PSFT, ATG, EBS, etc.) and to middleware (Oracle DB, Weblogic, AIA/SOA, etc.). Less attention and money is given to the hardware and OS( Linux/Solaris) side of the house due to the slim margins. The public cloud side of the software development is the place to be at today since all of the transformation work is going on there to get the Oracle stack into SaaS/PaaS services. Avoid jobs for products like Compute (Nimbula), Bare Metal, and SDN. These are problem areas where money and resources are being wasted in an internal arms race that is being poorly managed to catch up to AWS.

Management wise, Oracle is a solid place to build up your career and advice. However, make sure you avoid managing products or services that have slim margins. So do your research before jumping into a management position. Also, there is a lack of corporate level oversight and architecture to make sure that different products, services, and business units don't clash. So don't expect things to make a lot of sense.

The company can make very rapid and surprising business decisions that directly effect your organization and thusly job. The bottom line is of the most importance to the executives. So if your product, service, or business unit is not performing, don't be surprised when you are told to look at other jobs or axed. So making sure that you have a good management team is key to avoiding these situations.

Perhaps it is because my company was acquired by Oracle, but clearly the phrase "the head doesn't know what the tail is doing" applies. It is a leviathan of a company. I went from a sole specialist in my department to being part of a team, all of which were on the other side of the country. I was asked to join "the team" in person, but Oracle wouldn't allow for moving expenses, time to move, an increase in pay to cover owning a house on the east coast and renting a shoebox on the west coast, or give me more than two weeks to find someone to rent my house as selling it that quickly was impossible. So I opted to stay on to head up east coast projects.

I wasn't allowed to complete projects that hadn't been finished before the acquisition, I had to do that on my own time. I was no longer allowed to collaborate on projects with my former department, other department heads or even my CMO & CEO because there were now interdepartmental charges for my services to start a project AND complete a project, which no one had an allotted budget for.

Bonuses and raises that were agreed upon before the acquisition were denied under the new management. Some people had their salaries ridiculously reduced just so those people would quit and Oracle wouldn't have to pay unemployment. I was salary and was switched to hourly. I had the same pay rate, but now I had to make extensive weekly documentation of everything I did. I couldn't stay late, come in early, or work weekends or holidays. I couldn't take days off for illness or vacation because that "wasn't in the system for your profile".

The entire job culture we created was gutted for the products we produced. All marketing content wasn't redone, rather "color swapped" (we had 5 company colors with 5 intensity variations for branding beforehand, now everything had to be 1 specific Black, 1 specific Gray, and 1 specific Red ONLY. Any variation would be sent back to be redone to conform). I had a new boss every two months, none of whom I had ever met, one I had never even spoken with on the phone, and another was replaced by someone new before I ever had the chance to email.

Nothing could get done because even facilities was tied up in red tape. Toilets couldn't be unclogged or serviced. Renovations, which were underway before the acquisition, were halted because everything down to the paint color hadn't been approved of. And all old signage, branding, "company swag" which we received on corporate outings was ordered to be destroyed.

If you're new to Oracle, it will probably be fine. If they're taking over your company, RUN! RUN AND NEVER LOOK BACK!

A Typical Day at Work
A typical day for me usually begins by reviewing ongoing projects and setting priorities for the day. I’ll often dive into data analysis, creating or updating visualizations, and collaborating with teams to address any challenges or questions. Communication is key, so I make sure to keep everyone informed on progress and share actionable insights. I also spend time exploring new technologies or tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of my work.

What I Believe I Learned
Over time, I’ve learned how to balance technical skills with business needs. It’s not just about knowing the tools and techniques, but also understanding how to apply them in a way that brings real value to a business. I’ve also learned to adapt quickly, whether that means troubleshooting an issue or adjusting a project’s direction based on new information.

Management
In my experience, good management is about clear communication, trust, and collaboration. I value leaders who empower their teams to take ownership of their work while providing guidance and support when needed. The best managers I've worked with set clear expectations and then step back, allowing their team to thrive and innovate.

Workplace Culture
I believe a positive workplace culture is one where collaboration, respect, and innovation are encouraged. In my ideal environment, everyone feels valued for their contributions, and open communication is fostered. It’s important to have a culture that promotes continuous learning and growth, where everyone is motivated to push boundaries and improve together.

The Hardest Part of the Job
The hardest part of the job can be managing the complexity of data and ensuring that insights are both accurate and actionable. It can sometimes be challenging to translate technical data into something that everyone, from decision-makers to end users, can easily understand and act on. But this is also one of the most rewarding parts, as it requires creativity and clear communication.

The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job
The most enjoyable part of the job is when I see the impact of my work—whether it’s a well-executed data visualization that provides clarity or an AI model that drives efficiency. I love the process of solving complex problems and then seeing the real-world benefits of the solutions implemented. It’s very satisfying to know that my work directly contributes to a company’s success and growth.




It's kind of hard to describe the typical day at Oracle in the Micros side. Oracle in the Micros side you are going to be dealing with Hotels and restaurant, I deal with hotels PMS.  I'm going to start with the hardest part of the job. When you start at Oracle, Oracle is going to give you "training", which we think this is going to be useful for us.  Once you dig in to the training and you are on the phone you think to your self this is swim or sink because the training does not teach you anything, but when you after a few months to a year the sink or swim just leaves your mind and now is sink or sink faster since Oracle does not prepare you for whats going on.  The employees at Oracle have to learn the Opera application by your self, dont even bother asking for help because that's like talking to a mirror.  I have learned at Oracle the Opera application and how to work with their server.  I don't even know how to describe management, since every manager say something else, and no manager see's eye to eye.  At oracle you are going to listen to your manager and your manager's managers, if you listen to another manager from another property they are going to have another rules and it's going to get you in hot water with your manager, even though they work for Oracle.  I can't really see anything that's hard about Oracle, except when their cloud product crashes, mind you this happen in a daily basis.  When you know that your shift is starting, we always ask "what broke this time"?  How many properties is being affected?  I'm unable to answer the last question, because till this day I'm still asking my self what do I like about this job. This is why, once you start working at Oracle and you discussed your pay rate.  For the first few week to a month your going to noticed that you going a good pay rate, but when you noticed that your peers make twice, three times, or four times with no experience nor education you start to question their moral ethics.  About the advancement and job security, it's kinda of hard to get fired at Oracle, I mean you have to do something really dumb, I mean the dictionary has to have your face to get fired.  Saving the best for last the Advancement, you have to what job is what, because at Oracle most of the job position when you try to move up the latter, it's not really moving up.  You are only moving side ways on the latter, either left or right.  Now you are thinking, what does that mean.  It means that you are going to get promoted to another position with more responsibility and the same pay rate.

Work with highly skilled, intelligent people who get an ambitious workload done at a fast pace. 
A Typical Day at Work
A typical day as Director of Program Management at Oracle is fast-paced and dynamic. Mornings often start with aligning cross-functional teams, reviewing project timelines, and prioritizing deliverables. I lead stand-up meetings to track progress, address roadblocks, and ensure alignment with strategic goals. The day involves collaborating with engineering, product, and executive teams to drive program execution, often juggling multiple high-stakes initiatives. Data-driven decision-making is key, with regular dives into performance metrics and risk assessments.

What I Learned
I honed skills in strategic planning, stakeholder management, and navigating complex organizational structures. Leading diverse teams taught me to balance technical depth with business acumen, fostering resilience and adaptability in high-pressure environments.

Management
Management at Oracle is results-oriented, with clear expectations and autonomy to execute. Supportive leaders encourage innovation but demand accountability, creating a structured yet empowering environment.

Workplace Culture
The culture is collaborative yet intense, with highly skilled, intelligent colleagues driving ambitious workloads. Teamwork is valued, but the pace requires strong self-management and prioritization.

Hardest Part of the Job
The hardest part is managing competing priorities across global teams, often with tight deadlines and resource constraints. Aligning stakeholders with differing agendas while maintaining momentum can be challenging.

Most Enjoyable Part of the Job
The most enjoyable aspect is working with brilliant minds to deliver impactful solutions. Seeing complex programs come to fruition and driving innovation at scale is incredibly rewarding. 

This was a great company to work for. I was very happy! My co-workers were always extremely helpful with great attitudes, and that is a huge factor for me in a working environment.

Management was always very encouraging and didn't Hover over you all day. They give you the trust and confidence to go about your day. They were always quickly responsive anytime I needed any help.

Oracle has a very fun and relaxed working environment. They have fun games and activities built into their walls. So you could be getting up from your desk for a much needed break! and walk down the hall and start playing the electronic basketball game on the wall, or race cars on the built in race car track. etc. They have foozeball and ping pong tables in the break rooms, with Amazing! views of lady bird lake. From any break room on any floor. They have "quiet rooms" where you can go to take a little 15min. nap on your break, if you'd like. 
Oracle goes above and beyond to make sure their employees are happy and stress free on a daily basis. Because, lets face it. Every job position can get stressful. No matter what kind of job you have...so as a company they really understand that aspect and they created an Environment that MAKES you WANT to go to work everyday! Which i believe is a huuuge! benefit.

Also we all know that Food! is what get us through our day, each day.  They have an amaziiiing cafeteria! with over 7 different types of cuisine stations. (American, Indian, Italian, Hibachi! and more! anything and everything you are looking for is on site. Which is very convenient knowing how bad the traffic is in Austin. It take you 10 min. to get to a place that should only take you 5 min. to get to, and then as soon as you get your food, your lunch break is already almost over!...They also have a very nice gym on site with showers, lockers, and changing rooms. So if you have time to go work off all those cookies you just ate in the cafeteria, you can do that as well.

So, all in all. Oracle is a Wonderful! place to work. I would definitely recommend working for this company if you are someone like me, who truly values a great working environment.

The only reason I am no longer with them, is because I was hired on as a short-term temp and unfortunately there came a point where they did not need my assistance anymore. I would have loved to stay there though.

Good Luck to anyone else, on your endeavors! :)


For myself in my position I am currently in a typical workday is your standard call in center for technical support regarding their products. Sometimes you may get back to back calls. Other times you may have time to work on other projects between calls. It all depends on your queue. On average you'll need to take at the very least 12 to 15 calls a day.

For learning opportunities it's also dependent on what you want to know. For me personally I want to grab as much knowledge as I can. You will also have an opportunity to even get free certifications for their products too.

Management is pretty chill. They will provide feedback for you and give advise on how to improve if they see you struggling. They also want you to be promoted or even find something within the company that further interests you. They don't want you to feel stuck.

Culture is about as much as you can do without having face to face contact. Sure you'll have those people that you talk to on the daily, and you make the most out of it whenever you can.

Hardest part of my job is the repetitive nature. It's the same problems coming in over and over and at times in rapid sessions. Also, since we have different "buckets" for different solutions but ONE queue -- you'll often times be forced to take a call from another bucket. A spillage if you will. It feels like you're doing someone else's job. Especially when you check the queue and all the previous bucket members are all MIA at lunch, meetings, or breaks. They don't take in the regard of the other people. Like I get it you gotta take a break, but can they at least make sure there are people that can adequately cover for their part of the queue?

The best part of the job is the benefits. They are pretty good at providing paid time off for their people. They also provide you paid time to work on your professional development. That development is for you to become certified (in my case) with a certification for their products and services. With those certs you can take those ANYWHERE and they just give the classes for free to their employees. Labs are also free, or they tell you where you can get them for free. They let you do this for 20 hours and after that the rest is on your time.

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