Oh, boy. What a mistake. But at least it looks good on the CV - Business Development Consultant Oracle Employee Review

2.0
22 Nov 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll meet great colleagues there, a really good bunch. Tied together by the same semi-awful experience working at Oracle Digital in Dublin. The new office is quite a stunner. Great facilities, light, enough space, clean, eco-friendly, so-so canteen. You'll learn outbound prospecting with little to none supporting tools. Oracle still has a good reputation for producing strong sales people in the world. So your tenure here will look good on your CV. Just not within Ireland, everyone knows Oracle. If you want to progress, just stay with the company. Eventually you'll be promoted. Best work-life balance of any job out there.

Cons

The lies, the micro- and senior management, compensation/bonus, the coaching/training Oracle tell you quite a story of how they work, how you can work, about compensation and bonuses. Take it with a grain of salt and be very, very critical. When they offer you a relocation package make sure to very closely read the terms. If you stay less than two years, you might end up with a couple of grand in debt and given the fluctuation of people running back out of Oracle, that's a real possibility for you. You will be micro-managed, if you're lucky you get the odd more lenient manager. Generally, (senior) management doesn't care about your opinion, better play game. Many managers have no management experience and shouldn't be handling people. Leads to big frustrations and high fluctuation within Oracle Digital. Motivation consequently is low, people share the bad vibes. Depending on your territory and market, you'll barely see a bonus, unless you start sandbagging, making deals etc. Just grow the pipeline. You'll have almost no helpful tool to do your job, which is mostly cold calling. No active marketing in Europe means no inbound leads. Coaching and training is a big one in Oracle. But they fail to do so. Coaching team is not really generating real value, training will not prepare you for C-level interactions. Poor experience overall.

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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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