Disorganized Business Culture and Values - Poor On-Boarding Training - Senior Colleagues too Selfish to Help - Sales Oracle Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary, globally well-known brand, internationally leading database provider, attractive locations world-wide, equality between bother genders, sexual orientations and origins

Cons

Disorganized business cultures and values: Oracle considers itself a 'Self-Service Company'. This self-service structure, however, is poorly to not functional due to excessively high amount of internal processes, tools and involved contact people. Poor on-boarding training and several senior colleagues' minimal to lacking willingness to train new hires contribute to disorganized business culture and values. Unstructured business planning and execution: Minimal investment in marketing strategies (2%) leads to Oracle pressuring sales and other departments to raise brand awareness as a newly position cloud provider. More budget shall be investested in marketing. Lack to absence of internal growth opportunities. Unprofessionalism: Customer data poorly treated. Some colleagues having inacceptable interactions with eachother and business partners.

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Cons

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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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