Oracle has not had a good record with supporting women employees. I believe there is a lawsuit against them from the labor department, since they do not hire women.
I also read a 2003 lawsuit filed by a woman for s-xual harassment. She was sabotaged by being excluded from meetings and information that the other people in her group had access to. Then, she was s-xually attacked by an Oracle manager, Indian.
I am female and worked for 2 oracle managers who systematically excluded me from meetings and information. Both of them Indian. There were no women managers in the area I was in.
I pulled 2 posts from another thread to put here, one woman recently laid off. I am wondering how the layoff is affecting women at Oracle. Perhaps women might share their stories here.
Post 1:
"This post is really helping me a lot, knowing that what I'm feeling is shared by others who went through the same thing. My boss called me mid-May to say I was gone as of June 1. Instead of feeling upset (other than the fact that I didn't deserve to be let go), I felt relief.
I'm a middle-aged female who sold Enterprise Core Tech. In 5 years, I've had 8 managers and only 2 other women on my team, neither of whom stayed for even a year. Core tech sales is the opitomy of an old boys club. I don't know what I would've done if not for my SCs (all male) who were my lights during some very dark days. I've been propositioned, harassed and lied to by my managers, left out of meetings and continuously given the worst accounts in the area to match some of the highest quotas in the group.
Think about that. People like to say you sck if you don't make quota, but no one ever discusses that all quotas are not created equal. Managers are given a number to meet that they divide between their reps. So, give an extra $M to your 'boys' which might cause them to leave or give it to the 'girl' with the sold out territory? Why make 5 reps unhappy when you can just scrw one rep? Besides, she's a girl. She's expected to fail. No one will question when she can't live up to the job.
So why didn't I just leave? Because O was my first Fortune 100 tech job and in sales, you'll never get another job until you can talk about exceeding quota. So I had to stay until I did that. Which I did. But then the next problem occurred; I actually cared about my accounts. I've had accounts who joked about making voodoo dolls of my predecessor so they could stick him with pins, or previous reps who had verbally abused them or were caught in lies. These accounts deserved better from O. And from the calls I've gotten, sometimes years later, from old customers asking how to get me back, I know I've done well by them.
So what did my management do to reward the positive impact I'd had in my accounts? I actually had a manager who decided he wanted to tell an account that my job was on the line if they didn't spend $Ms on a new contract. He said "they really like you a lot and I bet they'd sign rather than cause you to be fired."
So was I let go for underperforming? Yes and no. Yes, because I didn't make quota. A quota that was 2x what my (brand new to me) accounts had bought for the previous 5 years COMBINED. Only one account had a Cloud agenda, for which they hired a new C-level exec from a Cloud competitor. My Cloud deal came from the only account I brought with me as part of an on-Prem SW renewal. Prior to my last day in the group, I was the ONLY rep who had closed a Cloud deal, along with business in 3 of the last 4 quarters. I had more revenue than any other rep in my group and a sizable PaaS deal for a new logo. Yet I was the one released.
I'm not worried about getting another job. Early in May I talked with a MS manager about Cloud technology (the job I want most) and he would like to hire me, once he understands what their new fiscal year will bring. But I just haven't been able to muster up the energy to start applying to other jobs. I have lots of friends in other companies waiting for my resume so they can help me get a job, but I'm just too worn out right now. I'm not depressed, just very, very tired. And very cynical that every place will just be like O."
Post 2:
"I am a female engineer. I was in the fusion middleware area, I no longer work at Oracle.
I was sabotaged by my manager, excluded from meetings, told to do things that would waste my time, given ridiculous requirements and then laughed at behind my back by the "guys".
There is not a woman in sight in this area of Oracle, consequently it is intensely corrupt. They will do anything to make sure to keep that woman in her place. They NEED to make sure that all women look incompetent. Such intensely fragile egos.
Some of the guys, I think, would be OK, if they were in another company, but the lead guys have serious problems and even the reasonably decent men say nothing. They just go along, so they won't be attacked by anyone themselves.
I have an IQ of 140, at my previous company I received an excellence award. At Oracle I was given really difficult tasks, things that my manager thought were impossible, but I took them as challenges and I did them, one after the other. After a few years though, when you are excluded from all information it becomes more and more difficult to function.
There was another woman that passed by briefly. I saw a demo from her.... the manager, who was also my manager was talking to her in baby talk during the demo she was doing..... "Oh, isn't that nice."
Never saw her again.
There are good companies out there. I have had better success at smaller companies or those that really rate employees on performance. At Oracle, I did not receive any reviews the last 3 years I was there.... same manager that did the baby talk.
Very sick and twisted people in this organization."