Does Oracle have toxic, competitive culture as a company or is it just my team? I joined 18 months ago (nearly to date) and I've never worked anywhere where there was less cooperation and more competition (and not in a positive let's compete so we all do better way, more in a back–stabbing, credit–stealing way.) To say I didn't expect something like this when I joined would be an understatement.
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I was asked in an interview describe ORacle culture. My answer: dog eat dog
Oracle Culture?
Oxymoron!
Oracle, but not only Oracle, has lots of managers who might be a people manager and a bad person inside. They steal their team member's credit and give those to their favorable member without even a reason. I experienced many times. They even hide you in the corner once your great effort made attraction to the VP, then they could ask their favorable person to present you project without telling you anything. And his favorite guy could stop by and ask you some tech questions that they could not answer during the meeting with VP. What a shame.
Guess you don't work at the pointy end of the plane if someone can steal your credit.
Youknowwho there got 2.4m in signon RSUs then boo hoo got asked to work weekends.
http://andrewwatters.com/law/oracle/Patchett%20-%20FAC.pdf
Try to think of your time spent at Orahole as "character building". Your tech skills will languish while working here, but you will have developed so much character by the time that they fire you.
HTH
It's not so much competitive and it is CONFLICTIVE. healthy competition is not a bad thing, in fact I see it as a good thing. It helps people push themselves to improve and expand their skillsets. This can and is best done in an open ethical and supportive environment. When you have a conflictive environment (And LR likes conflict, he thinks it does what open honest and fair competition will do) it have you have the credit stealing and back stabbing because that is the nature of conflict. You are literally at war with everyone else, to win at any and all costs, regardless of the fallout. You are not trying to get better to improve yourself and to elevate yourself, you are trying to win at everyone else's expense. THAT, my friend, is Oracle culture in a nutshell.
This topic has been covered ad nauseam on this board. Eg, @1uar+1agsiz2o
You obviously didn’t take advantage of crowd sourced reviews, or you are trolling.