This culture extends throughout Oracle. Good job LE, projecting yourself throughout the company.
Each manager holds tightly to his own ego and his employees do the same. They bully and harass anyone who might have a better idea to get them to leave, then in some cases take the idea and present it as their own. They then lack the actual knowledge to implement the idea correctly and they end up with a lot of half-a--, half-developed crap that is not useful to anyone.
They do this because they are intensely insecure people, as all thugs are. They can't stand the idea of actually trying to work with an intelligent developer, because they deeply believe they won't measure up. They can't just accept that they don't know everything, ask questions like normal people, and learn from the person that obviously knows more than they do.
So they attack, belittle, harass, and sabotage the smarter developers instead. This they know how to do, and there are so many people like this at Oracle, they have a large pool of scumbags they can copy techniques from. No one in the upper management does anything about this type of harassment, I suppose they all got where they are by doing the same thing.
Groups outside of development are of little help, as they are corrupt in very similar ways. The marketing people are generally lazy and refuse to learn anything about the technology stack that is being sold. They want development to create one-button applications that they can demo to the customers without knowing anything other than where the one-button is. Actually lazy is a massive understatement to describe marketing. Again these people are wrapped around their egos. They cannot take a chance of actually learning anything, because they could fail and look bad. So, instead they prefer to learn nothing and BS their way around everything. Instead of thinking of innovative products, they look at what other companies are doing and try to copy as much as possible. This strategy will also end up too little and too late. They harass and belittle development, because they cannot come up with the one-button magic application that can never be written. They constantly complain about the impossible not being done, while they laze around doing and learning nothing.
Support is disgusted with the poor response they get from the thugs in development. Development closes cases with no comments when they don't want to deal with a problem. Good support people, no doubt leave, and the ones left, fake whatever they can get away with.
Send developers to the customer site to help, and they harass, insult and intimidate the IT teams working on Oracle implementations. Again, to protect their fragile little egos.
Sales is at the tail end trying to sell crap with no help from marketing or support. They need to meet quotas that are unattainable and consequently they lie and cheat customers in inventive ways, like the audit scams that are so well known here.
If you are a competent employee, you need to see the light, update your skills, and get the hell out of the Oracle mess.
If you are an investor, you need to understand that Oracle has no future. The cloud has failed because of the problems above. The only way Oracle could recover is to push the reset button and start over, and that will not happen. No one in the management is going to lay themselves off. The managers aren't going to lay their thugs off, because they are their protection. They lay off the smarter people and assume there will be more that they can abuse and use later on. That will come to an end, as those people understand where they are working and how they will be treated.
They had to pay an AI guy $6 million dollars to stomach working at Oracle. That's not a sustainable plan. The thugs who will harass this guy out of the company will not be able to do the work left when he's gone.