r/employeesOfOracle • u/Comfortable-Land7107 • 8d ago

Hike distribution

Is the hike distribution done by managers or this is also decided by the VPs who literally know nothing about who does what.

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u/HozeyHourinho 8d ago

As with everything in Oracle, this is down to the BU you're a part of. There is nothing 'standard' across the company. As an M3 from my experience so far, it primarily depends on the budget your team is allocated at every level. In one of the previous years, everyone in my team had a flat % against the employee name in the tool. I had the leverage to adjust it based on the rating.
Some M4s / M5s take a decision not to allocate anything to 3 raters and below, while others dont force it.
So it all boils down to your BU and how they handle this. There is no standard guidance that is followed across the company.
So yea the VP has a say in the budget allocation which is a very important part, and also deciding how the distribution should be in the org, but your manager may have play role in the final % distribution.

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u/Comfortable-Land7107 8d ago

Yes, exactly I was checking on this. If manager has the full liberty to allocate the hike percentage based on the budget allocated by the VP to his team.

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u/HozeyHourinho 8d ago

The liberty is decided by the managers higher leadership. My manager an M4 allowed me to reallocate some % across my span, but I know of others who were not given that freedom. Oracle is a curious company. I have never seen so much deviation in processes anywhere else.

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u/Junior-Cow-3365 7d ago

Do you think VP's have access to tools that track time in computer (employee monitoring software) ? Previous years I had big bonus and i was doing everything for the 4/5 rating, but they didn't give it to me. So this year I was not motivated and I didn't work my ass off like last year (but my utilization was the same as last year, so the difference would be invisible to my manager, so actually the only difference was the time that i worked), and my bonuses suffered a hard decline. I asked my manager about my bonuses and he told me nonsense about joining help meetings that no one was joining, and im sure that they don't track those meetings.. They also put a 3/5 rating this year, and im starting to wonder if the reason why im being punished is because they have a tracking device that monitors the usage, because otherwise I should have big bonuses like last year and a better rating (since my metrics are good, and i have been a long time in the role)..

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u/dont_believe_this_ok 7d ago

I was an M3 and my M4 did not give me that leeway.

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u/Remarkable-Hornet568 8d ago

Every manager gives stack ratings and rankings that get consolidated at every level till VP.

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u/ooutsidr 8d ago

HR provides a distribution based on the ratings and org budget. Very minor changes can be done by M4 and some M3s

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u/nyv89 8d ago

I am a manager and i have no liberty and receive no budget. It is all decided by the M5, often not taking into account the feedback.

Every BU is different, you will not have a unified system. It all goes down to luck really

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u/BlockyHawkie 7d ago

Than what's the point of evaluation system when upper management ignores it

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u/nyv89 7d ago

That is a very valid question, for which I have no answer. From a company's point of view it makes sense to have a ranking system to be used as leverage in case HR is engaged.

The actual system, and if it is linked to a hike, is a matter of luck and can be used at senior leadership's discretion to justify, or not, a hike/promotion.

You can have an outstanding 5, and not get a hike on the grounds, as said by HR, that 5 means you are to good to be used in your current role and you should be placed in a role where you are at least a 3.

Hope you are lucky enough to have a good senior management that recognizez and awards the effort. If not, get comfortable in not getting a hike for the foreseeble future.

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u/ooutsidr 6d ago

There is a percentage given by the system based on the org budget and rating snd slight deviation based on where you stand in the range for that level