More Cons than Pros - Applications Sales Manager Oracle Employee Review

2.0
Dec 27, 2016
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Pros

Oracle was a great company. Many enterprise level applications. Work life balance was good. Resources were great

Cons

I was always told you get paid well so to put up with the dysfunction. Middle management has no empowerment. Multiple pillars don't work together and are encouraged to compete against each other for the customers budget by their management. The college hire program is great for the new college kids but lack of training and focus on call the customer 100x a week has pushed customers to hate Oracle. The experienced Field Sales has to apologize for the lack of professionalism by the telesales teams. The Cloud is great but Oracle's Cloud Strategy is siloed with no real direction by leadership. Leadership is so focused on saying they are #1 in Cloud by acquiring good Cloud Solutions and then demolishing the acquired solution over time. Other great companies such as Workday, Salesforce, Click, ServiceNow are truly great in the Cloud and take care of their customers and employees. Many of these companies are lead by former Oracle executives that saw Oracle Leadership at the very top with no vision and losing it's respective place in Enterprise Software.

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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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