Company: Oracle
Date: 2017-10-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Enterprise sales for large named Telco accounts and FSI cloud team
Pros: The name - Oracle - that’s about it.  It looks great on resumes for future jobs. People are all very smart that work there but when the average tenure is 11 months, start looking elsewhere ASAP...my advice, just cozy up internally with counterparts on your team who may be willing to give a rev share cuz that’s the only way you’ll make money in the internal department - push paper for reps on your team in the field who get deals handed to them.
Cons: Great name - that's truly it! Looks great on paper and other people outside Oracle think it's impressive, that it's cutthroat, that "if you made it at Oracle, you can anywhere"!  This is true, but mainly because you got a glimpse of how awful the "dark side" can be. The good news, every job after will be amazing because it doesn't get much worse. For example: changing quotas literally 5 times in one fiscal year - especially if a rep is getting close to hitting their number. Sounds like an exaggeration or illegal? Well it is true and they are getting sued for this currently by hundreds of reps but Oracle's team of lawyers have done the math cost/benefit ratio and they've calculated its still more in their financial benefit to continue dragging out lawsuits for years, reinvesting money they withhold in paying commissions to sales reps (another lawsuit pending) and other shady practices than to actually (God forbid) do the ETHICAL thing 1)pay reps on time 2) not consistently manipulate quotas 3) don't shuffle territory's only to benefit Oracle, nobody else...seriously the list goes on but I am leaving next week to go onto a top tier organization that actually innovates and fosters creativity, hard work, great positive people NOT how to cook the books (like they did with the recent AT&T "purchases" or rely on their on-premises successes they've stretched out for the last 30+ years! I highly recommend doing your due diligence and not taking my word for it but asking others in sales that currently work there...