Oracle reviews

- Salary hike rarely happens. Last time after 2 years with a budget of less than 6%. - Growth is limited. Already 200 + manager's and 20+ director and company total strength is approx 800. - No onsite allowance. You will be told that your limit is 30-40 usd, but you need to provide the bills. No bill no payment, so no eating at roadside or restaurant who don't give your bill. Even you can't claim tips / liquor on expenses. This will go out from your own pocket as tips is mandatory in most of the country. - Don't expect good accommodation when you travelling onsite for project. You might have to share an apartment with 2-3 other families / consultants. - You need to pay your kids travel visa, tickets, etc from your own pocket. Air ticket and visa application fee for spouse needs approval and the you have to pay the pre-requisite tax on these. - Once you at onsite or in project, you will be on mercy of your project manager. You will hardly get any positive response from your managers for any onsite related issues..

I've never worked at a Sales oriented company where I've had to fight with so many departments to get a deal done, only to then have provisioning screw everything up. I spend more than half my work day helping my reps fix Oracle created internal problems so the customers can actually receive the service they want or are paying for. Its embarrassing to win a sales cycle only to have Oracle screw it up so badly (internally) that the customer questions why they're going to trust their mission critical enterprise application to a company who can't get a technical question or something else answered in a week? Secondly, from an operations standpoint, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS need better resources. Asking a customer to wait 4-6 weeks after the customer buys to receive their environment, is unacceptable. Other Cloud Providers I've worked for do it in minutes if not hours. To add insult to injury, then provisioning screws up the order and when they're questioned, you get some snarky answer of: "These are complex deals". Clearly something is broken. If they're overworked, why should the customer suffer because Oracle can't hire people fast enough? Or, as its commonly known throughout the Sales Org, there are bugs in our provisioning software that do not get resolved in a timely manner. I'm not referring to a couple of weeks but rather months. This is months of this negatively impacting the customer.