Sales Manager - Anonymous employee Oracle Employee Review

1.0
1 Jun 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great work-life balance If you are looking for a company where not performers are recognized and stay there for a long time "surviving" being hated by your reps but loved by your VPs , Oracle is the right company for you

Cons

If you are a talented professional and want to progress your career unfortunately is not the right company for you. Also is you are not Irish and do not support the big Irish management gang working there you are not the right person at all. Do you want to know how a 80/90s company is working in 2016? Welcome to Oracle!! No strategy or plannification! CRM is the worst ever ..main tool used internally is Excel which means data is highly not accurate so everyone can make up numbers easily. BDG is a total mess, ISRs too. Cold calling and ridiculous KPIs that can't be measure properly are main part of the job for fresh graduates or experienced reps that are totally by their own to achieve targets. Unfortunately most of the directors and VPs are dinosaurs that never sold Cloud solutions in an Inside Sales org which means they do not have any clue how to go to market. Creativity and proactivity is being killed internally by Directors rather political environment and personal favours are seeing as normality

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Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
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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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