Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

as with all reviews and comments, one has to take them with a grain of salt.

while there are those who make it their duty to inform others of their experience,

one also has to weigh the effects of the "squeaky wheel" syndrome.

that said, i would have to agree with other's sentiments that O.'s culture and the way

their employees are treated leaves a lot to be desired.

I liked a couple of reviews that I saw on glassdoor.

One had the phrase "deception from sales to engineering"

The other compared oracle engineering to working in the regime of a third world dictator. The only way to move up is by decapitating whoever is above you and roughing up the competition.

Sick place to work.

However, they are clearly fake as no one in the US ever calls a "raise" a "hike".

BS, I use and hear the word hike as in "pay hike", "hike in wages", etc. all the time.

you even live in the US?

They can use the term 'hikes' if they want, although I've never actually heard anyone here use it.

i bet you never heard of a lot of other things you claim to be an expert about.

And if it was coupled with real-life accounts of things experienced, that would be different.

what real life accounts might those be? everyone has to be as gabby as you to pass the test?

maybe you should only include posters that leave a dna sample in your analysis.

But completely generic positive reviews, one after the other, that supposedly come from a diverse group of US workers, yet all use a term I've never heard anyone use?

wow, you can't be serious. how big does that overinflated shameless ego of yours need to be to so boldly declare anything which little you never heard of must not be true?

and where do you get the idea that glassdoor, or similar, will come from a diverse group of workers? this isn't the census.

Perhaps you are the one who should apply critical thinking and learn to extrapolate data from multiple reviews to find a pattern before trying to give one potential but unlikely solution.

right, I should learn to find patterns that match my personal prejudices and then make up stories to further them.

btw, I hate to repeat this, but your reasoning is beyond flawed and really scary.

I hope you don't hold any positions of power at O. or get to work on anything important.

being a bigot certainly helps find patterns.

They can use the term 'hikes' if they want, although I've never actually heard anyone here use it. And if it was coupled with real-life accounts of things experienced, that would be different. But completely generic positive reviews, one after the other, that supposedly come from a diverse group of US workers, yet all use a term I've never heard anyone use? Perhaps you are the one who should apply critical thinking and learn to extrapolate data from multiple reviews to find a pattern before trying to give one potential but unlikely solution.

"However, they are clearly fake as no one in the US ever calls a "raise" a "hike". That is a term used in India and other places. "

A person of indian decent that is working in the US for Oracle can't use the term hike in their review? It's automatically fake huh?

Hope you don't work in occupation that requires critical thinking skills.

Actually, I think you can tell many of the fake reviews from the real ones.

The real ones give specific details or details you know to be true or can imagine being true given your own experiences there. Some of the positive reviews are clearly from new, young millennials who have so far been spared the realities of Oracle. They have just as much right to their lucky beginning as many of us had in our unlucky ending. I bet if they stayed for a few years and could update their comments, they would paint a different picture. However, just because it is a positive review does not mean it is fake.

Fake reviews often get posted on the same day or just after bad news or layoffs, all saying the same things with no personal experience details on them (Good food, good pay and benefits and, even though they no longer give vacation, some will still say good vacation days). In addition, while they are supposed to have been posted by people in, say, the US (filter for this), they all use the exact same "Con"; "No Hikes". At this point it's public knowledge that Oracle doesn't give raises, so using this as the only "Con" doesn't really hurt them. However, they are clearly fake as no one in the US ever calls a "raise" a "hike". That is a term used in India and other places. If the review was supposed to be from somewhere else, then okay. But that's not the case. Another non-US term used in fake reviews is "fresher", or recent college graduate. And, yes, the ones where someone gives a 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 5 but then has more Cons than positive comments.

I strongly believe that 75% or so of Oracle's Glassdoor reviews are fake.

Plenty of spot-on accurate reviews from what I have seen. I started monitoring the oracle Glassdoor reviews and salaries as soon as they took over the company I worked for and that held up over time.

I have to agree that posts on Glassdoor are a little strange, for that reason I do not trust it. Did anyone hear that some companies post fake positive reviews for themselves?

I also seen reviews like that. Good ratings with bad comments. Don't know what that is... ?

According to Wikipedia - The company received its first financing in 2008, receiving $3 million in funding, before launching its website.[5] In 2012 Glassdoor received $20 million of venture capital, taking its total outside funding to $42.2 million.[29] The following year, the company raised an additional $50 million.[30] In 2015 the company raised an additional $70 million, in an investment round led by Google Capital, giving the company a valuation of just short of $1 billion. The total of investment at this point was $160 million.[3] In 2016 Glassdoor raised an additional $40 million from investors. Glassdoor is bought and paid for by big business. Can't believe anything posted there.