Good place to start your career, but not to advance it. - Field Sales Manager Oracle Employee Review

3.0
17 May 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salaries are near the high-end for your field. Good benefits. Great stability -- the company isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Opportunities to travel for some positions. Lots of friendly, sociable, and helpful coworkers, especially if you work in one of the primary sales hubs. Offices are well-stocked with supplies as well as free drinks. Relatively easy to move to different roles in other lines-of-business if you don't care for your current role (although it takes forever for HR to process job role changes). Name recognition is great, and it looks good to have Oracle on your resume.

Cons

Almost impossible to get any kind of raise or salary bump -- you have to leave for another company and then come back to get any sort of pay increase. HR is an absolute nightmare of a black hole when it comes to trying to get anything done internally, from a simple paycheck correction all the way up to moving to a new role. Sales support seems to be there just to make sales reps' jobs harder and more complicated, and all internal processes (sales or otherwise) are nearly impossible to navigate. Management chains are far too long and vertically stacked, and there are too many people above you putting conflicting and differing expectations on you. Sales targets, territories, and quotas are assigned almost arbitrarily to sales reps by people much higher up in the organization who have zero understanding of the actual sales landscape. Advertised as a "self-service" company, which is code for "everything relating to your job and role is subject to change constantly and without any warning or explanation".

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Cons

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4.0
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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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