Oracle reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(59,984 total reviews)

Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia

42% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Oracle has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 59,984 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oracle employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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60K reviews
3.0
May 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salaries are near the high-end for your field. Good benefits. Great stability -- the company isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Opportunities to travel for some positions. Lots of friendly, sociable, and helpful coworkers, especially if you work in one of the primary sales hubs. Offices are well-stocked with supplies as well as free drinks. Relatively easy to move to different roles in other lines-of-business if you don't care for your current role (although it takes forever for HR to process job role changes). Name recognition is great, and it looks good to have Oracle on your resume.

Cons

Almost impossible to get any kind of raise or salary bump -- you have to leave for another company and then come back to get any sort of pay increase. HR is an absolute nightmare of a black hole when it comes to trying to get anything done internally, from a simple paycheck correction all the way up to moving to a new role. Sales support seems to be there just to make sales reps' jobs harder and more complicated, and all internal processes (sales or otherwise) are nearly impossible to navigate. Management chains are far too long and vertically stacked, and there are too many people above you putting conflicting and differing expectations on you. Sales targets, territories, and quotas are assigned almost arbitrarily to sales reps by people much higher up in the organization who have zero understanding of the actual sales landscape. Advertised as a "self-service" company, which is code for "everything relating to your job and role is subject to change constantly and without any warning or explanation".

2.0
May 12, 2016

Director

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, a lot of smart people.

Cons

forget about a promotion, raise or bonus. Culture is getting worse, employees are not valued. Falling behind on technology.

2.0
Apr 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Did Presales SC work at Oracle for four years. Amazing people when I started, great place to build a network and meet people. Highly recommend for people EARLY in their careers looking for somewhere to learn and jump from. Field sales you get to work from home. Still has a good name, good place to leave and find another job from.

Cons

Expect to live on your base salary forever. Field sales numbers are terrible, dont ever expect a good bonus. Even when a good quarter happens, you get shafted on the bonus. Most of the best people have left, morale is horrible, and the products are really quite bad outside of core technology. You will be stuck reviewing SR's all the time because support is terrible, and you will get verbally beat up by dissatisfied customers that are making decisions to move off your tech. Your base will never increase, and your benefits will not be any good. Years of hard work and amazing production will be awarded with things like gift cards for amazon.com and a free dinner with your family, but no raises or bonuses. No innovation in the technology, more and more being outsourced to China and India, and for US more being done through interns/college hires. Management is not empowered to change the situation even though they know it.

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