It will age you at an accelerated rate - Oracle Direct Sales Oracle Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The only reason to work here is for the resume experience. It's a recognizable company. You can pickup the experience in the short run.

Cons

Oracle Direct is the inside sales portion of the company. This company loves to pit sales groups against each other. Teamwork is not valued here and as long as the current executive team is in place, it never will be no matter what they say. This is about as negative an environment as I have ever seen. It is littered with immature sales management. Everyone is in it for themselves, and you will be hard pressed to find anyone who is really a leader, and that goes all the way up to the top. There is only one cultural value at Oracle, and that is you make money. Read the mission statement on the website, and you'll see it's fluff. And while you can make 100k plus if you are lucky and hit the timing right, you can also easily find yourself in a bad territory with a narcissistic manager, and not make money which means you'll be fired soon.. It really is a gamble each and every month you're there and just because you've had a good year this year, you can easily be on the chopping block for termination 3 months down the road. If you are lucky to have a good territory, then the way to make your money is to audit each and every customer for using Oracle's IP out of compliance.. That's right, you're a glorified auditor, not a professional sales person because everything is tied up in Oracle's clever T's and C's. Hence, most of Oracle's customers hate Oracle. It's a weird place in that your colleagues just disappear (terminated) without warning. Company is struggling to keep customers and new customers are not coming on board because the prices are so outrageous. Once you work here, you realize that everything the exec team is a great exaggeration of the truth or an outright lie. The specs they tell the public about Exadata performance, or the amount of money they spend on R&D, or the number of jobs in the US Oracle has created are all bald face lies. If you're a customer advocate, this isn't the place to work. Also company makes massive mistakes on commission payouts and some of them appear to be deliberate. A careful real of your terms and conditions will let you see how Oracle holds on to every penny and looks for any possible way to find a way not to pay you for your work. That kind of company-wide legal hairball is why the stock prices keeps ticking up.

Explore other reviews about Oracle

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very cushy at times, not super high pressure

Cons

The actual software you're selling is low to mid tier software so hard to sell.

4.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

1366
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All