The good and the bad - Sales Representative Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Feb 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits - among the best in the industry. Good products. Work from home for some positions. Smart talented people to work with. If you can survive Oracle, you are well positioned to work elsewhere.

Cons

No raises in years. Extremely political environment. Reps are set up to compete with each other. A customer can have 5 Oracle reps all proposing something different and bad mouthing each other. It confuses our customers. Comp plans are changed frequently and not usually to the rep's benefit. If your manager has a $10M quota, he/she will assign $18M to their team. Quotas are hard to achieve. Massive layoffs on a regular basis cause stress. Oracle is considered very difficult to do business with by our customers, but Oracle doesn't really care. The goal is to make Oracle more money regardless of what it does to customer satisfaction. Tremendous pressure is exerted from above to hit your goal. This does not come in the way of guidance, but rather via threats and being publicly chewed out. Processes are incredibly difficult to maneuver. An expense report can take 2 hours to prepare. A simple request for a customer issue can require using 3 different tools and weeks of approval cycles. Anything that could / should be done in a day can take weeks. No emphasis on corporate culture.

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Pros

Good work life balance for an engineer

Cons

Lots of changes in organization structure

4.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Every group/division can be different in how they treat their employees, but I'd say overall there is very good atmosphere of trust and fairness. There is a strong focus on education, and they reimburse for outside classes taken (Up to 5k/year I think). Benefits are good, and I'd say quite competitive in the market. Good 401K matching (they'll contribute a max of 3% of your 6% or greater). Free drinks in the breakroom. Flexibility to work from home at times. (If you live 50+ miles away from an office you can work full-time from home...policy).

Cons

They don't try to make the workplace anything special (maybe a pool table and arcade game are cliche or gimmicky?). In the 10 years I've worked there, they've given 2 measly %1 cost of living raises (this is the same with most everyone I've spoken to, some don't get any raises). You will not get a substantial raise ever, unless you leave then get rehired on (they will not match offers, better to leave). New employees that you train will make 10 - 20K more than you several years after you hire on (not just me, they do this to all tenured employees). They will give these untrained, less experienced people higher titles (again this is done to everyone not just me). You learn pretty quickly that you're dispensable. The company has billions in cash and they don't re-invest in their employees, just in acquiring new companies and hiring new people that know nothing that you get to train.

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