Get ready for a bumpy ride. - Cloud Account Manager Oracle Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The brand is highly regarded by other companies and recruiters.

Cons

The three Ts of sales (Territory, Timing and Talent) are what makes or breaks you. Territories are remarkably unfair cut. Do not get fouled the majority of reps will never! make their target and thats not due to a lack of trying. (Amsterdam is an expensive city if you live of your base salary...). Timing becomes a gamble due to very long sales circles. Talent can’t overcome the bad territories and bad timing. Moreover the company change the compensation plan, to their favor within an ongoing fiscal!! Meaning you got less for your deals than agreed on before... Within 2 years the new department was started and closed. All 40 employees who were recruited from Germany lost their job. The office was transferred 4! times during this period. The company is claiming to produce state of the art IT, but runs itself on 80s corporate IT. Tools are even crashing on their own! Java products. In general internal process make up a the lion share of your task. Talk about selling internally rather than to external. Career improvement is difficult because your manager will change every year, which means starting from scratch. It is a difficult place that will you leave cynical and emotionally drained.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
21 Oct 2014
Recommend
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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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