I worked at their HQ in Redwood City briefly right out of college as an entry level programmer. The campus was very nice with a wonderful fitness center that I

I worked at their HQ in Redwood City briefly right out of college as an entry level programmer. The campus was very nice with a wonderful fitness center that I used regularly. They also had a pretty good offering of cafeterias. It was my impression that most of the employees were relaxed and never really stressed or over-worked. Pretty much everyone worked no more than 40 hours/week. So in terms of "work-life balance" or whatever it's called, I'd rate it pretty high. Turning to the technical side, I quickly found myself feeling very under-challenged/inspired. The tasks I was assigned were mainly fixing bugs in a huge code base (granted this is probably expected and a decent way to get new hires up to speed on the project). They weren't very involved bugs and never took more than a day or two to correct. So I was constantly asking for more tasks to work on. Frankly, I got bored. I realized the environment wasn't for me. Having come from a very rigorous undergrad program, the difference was like night and day. So I found a startup to work for (something I always knew I wanted to do at some point) and tendered my resignation 10 weeks after starting. However, I got the impression that each division/group/project at Oracle have fairly different cultures. Perhaps I would have had a different/better experience had I been on a different project. Though for what it's worth, a friend of mine who graduated a year later from the same school had the exact same experience at Oracle as I had.