Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-11-09
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Oracle SDR
Pros: -Pay isn't horrible unless your territory/team is absolute garbage. I made around 70k overall before taxes -- which isn't a bad salary right out of college

-Good exposure to the IT space if you don't have any experience. You'll learn a ton about cloud, database, certain apps, analytics, and the whole IT landscape in general. It's a skillset that transfers very nicely into better sales jobs at other companies 

-Good name brand recognition -- Oracle SDR's/AE's have a relatively easy time moving to superior companies like Salesforce, Google, Amazon, or to high-paying startups. 

-Nice gym that you can use for free.
Cons: Where do I even begin...

-Incredibly fake, fratty culture. If you aren't obsessed with baseball, weren't in a sorority, don't go to certain trendy bars, etc you won't like the other people here. The SDR force is completely recruited from a couple frats in a few California schools. Simply put, the people here suck. Everyone who is genuinely curious and intelligent is trying their hardest to get out if they're already here. 

-Awful, infuriating bureaucracy and technology. The CRM that you'll be using is a piece of trash. Actually, that's insulting to trash. It's the worst piece of technology I've ever used in my life. It's slow, crashes constantly, is completely counter intuitive, and annoys everyone who has to use it. A lot of websites and resources that you'll need to work on the job are similarly slow and incredibly buggy. 

-The product you'll probably be selling (Oracle Cloud) is a piece of trash. Comparing this to its "competitors" (Azure, AWS) is like comparing a Game Boy Color to a Oculus headset.  It is slow, the documentation sucks, its sales are drastically declining, and it frequently crashes and breaks. I felt bad selling this abomination. Its only redeeming value is that it is cheap. 

-Incredibly cheap company. No shuttle buses, no free food, depressing gray office, completely unwilling to invest in things that make work there pleasant. The leadership can afford it, they just don't care. 

-Oracle in general is a failing company that is getting left in the dust by its competitors. There's a lot of nonsense about how they're going to "kill AWS", which will never, ever happen. The President of the company quit because of the stupidity of their current strategy. They haven't innovated or created anything genuinely useful in several years -- they mostly survive by exploiting existing customers, successfully suing other companies, and buying out companies that are actually creating things.

-Just a toxic environment overall. I was depressed while I worked here -- I now work for a smaller company and am drastically happier and healthier.  Awful people, awful product, awful company. Get it on your resume and then get out.