Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-06-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sales Manager
Pros: Virtually unlimited expense account. $1,500 dollar dinners are not a big deal. Almost no scrutiny on expenses if you are a producer as I am.
Cons: Two important points to further validate my review:
1) My review is not coming from a disgruntled employee perspective as I continue to win awards and my performance is one of the best in the country. 
2) Your experience with Oracle is entirely based on your role within the company. There are many positions that are enjoyed by employees and many that are not. My experience stems from the NOT enjoyable perspective which would be anyone in sales or sale management. 
With that said, I have worked for very large companies (larger than Oracle) and start ups. Oracle is by far the most broken and dysfunctional company I have ever experienced. All of the psychotic dysfunction is masked by the fact that Larry Ellison cornered the Relational Database Market 30+ years ago so the company has a legal license to print money. The consistent revenue stream hides the broken and dysfunctional environment Mark Hurd has put in place for the Sales Organization. He has never done anything to me and this is not personal. My comment is simply based on the insane nature of the policies that he has implemented. Even though I am very successful with Oracle and again they will do everything possible to retain me nothing is worth the mental anguish and pure torture I am experiencing. I don't believe it is possible that there is a more broken and dysfunctional company that exists today or has ever existed in history. It would simply take too much typing to start giving specifics but if you are currently an oracle employee and you are starting to believe there is something wrong with you because  what you are experiencing, hearing, and seeing cannot be possible, don't worry you are not crazy it is actually really happening. Most of the upper  management within the sales organization that I work with were former failed managers that are debt ridden and desperate to retain their large salaries. They simply disregard the dysfunction and beat on everyone to deliver even though they are fully aware of the dysfunction that is impacting your ability to continue to successfully produce. It might be possible but no matter what anyone says, I will NEVER believe that a more toxic, psychotic and dysfunctional environment exists than Oracle Sales. I personally know hundreds of employees in Sales at Oracle and 99% of them are desperate to get out. The turnover for sales is very high and much higher than the industry average.