Was once a great place, bucking the downward trend. Now hampered by an exodus of talent and amateur middle management. - Technology Sales Representative Oracle Employee Review

3.0
Jan 17, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Oracle has a great strategy. One Red Stack makes sense. Plentiful resource pool to pull from. Foot soldiers are still leading the way.

Cons

Despite Oracle's strong strategic story, the fractional sales model means that there is no one communicating this message to customers. Inflexible support model prevents new sales. No surprise that 50% of global revenues come from support renewals. Amount of admin, spreadsheets and report creation is a huge time consumer. Middle management offers no support and is mostly made up of recently promoted telesales managers. Old boys network is strong and thriving.

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Pros

Good WLB and environment is good

Cons

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4.0
Oct 21, 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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