Oracle reviews

As they say, it all depends on who your direct boss is. It's the luck of the draw. The huge mistake I made was still accepting the job after Oracle did, in several ways, the old "bait & switch" on me. First, I was told I'd be reporting to someone else, whom I never even interviewed with, several days after accepting the job. At that point, I had no alternative but to move forward and hope for the best. I was also told it was a hybrid position (50% travel), which only held true during the 1st quarter of my tenure. A month after being assigned to a conference room with a group of other new hires who were also wondering whether they made the right decision to join Oracle, I finally was assigned to a cubicle. Not long after, we all received our territory/account assignments. At the time, we were told that half of each sales team were assigned "Greenfield" (Net New) accounts and the other Oracle "Install/Dormant accounts". We soon found out this was yet another lie of what would become an endless succession of lies. You see, in the majority of cases Oracle cleverly assigned the younger sales people (under 40) not only the "Greenfield" accounts, but they were also given "Install & Dormant" accounts. Oracle Mgt tried to keep this a secret from the older sales people who, in most cases, were assigned just "Install & Dormant" accounts, only to find out later that most of their accounts only wanted to do business via an Oracle Partner, or worse, were no longer using Oracle at all. It soon became evident that Oracle was setting up the younger employees to succeed. I could go on for pages sharing the unethical practices I witnessed, and sometimes was at the receiving end of, in my almost 2 years with Oracle Core Technology, but I'll simply sum it up this way....Unless you're willing to drink the Oracle Kool-Aid by screwing over not only your customers, but your fellow employees as well, you'll not last long. Before I conclude I have to mention the other unknowing victims at Oracle. I'm referring to the younger employees that have been given every chance to succeed that are being trained, if at all, by Managers who have limited sales experience, under 5 years, and are only interested in how & when they can get their next promotion. These younger employees are being given a false sense of their sales skills/abilities. They won't realize their short comings until they leave Oracle and land at another company that will have high expectations them.

Getting a good manager is luck of the draw. I've known a lot of people, who started when I did, that quit because their manager didn't fight for their quarterly bonus, didn't provide help or direction, and generally didn't care. A theme that you will find at Oracle is that some people care A LOT about their job, and work hard, but many use Oracle as a chill out job, and generally don't care at all about their work. You need to stick with the people who care, and avoid the people who try to get you to do their work for them, then you will enjoy it. Your manager can only do so much for you. Oracle has extremely rigid rules. e.g. - You can't receive a raise for the same job title - You can only be promoted or switch positions after an exact amount of time (i.e. 1 year) from a previous transition - If you go above and beyond, your manager can only give you a few % points above 100% for your bonus, and they have to take it from the rest of the team - Promotions are done in bulk, you can't be promoted one-off from the rest of a group. They have set raises for internal promotions. It's hard to negotiate (if at all). Oracle is always said to be a "great 1st and 3rd job." If you want to be paid fairly, you need to quit, and come back after a year to be paid well.