Company: Oracle
Date: 2015-04-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

You want $$$$$? Come here, sell like hell, and get OUT!
Pros: 1. Very bright individuals work here. You will find great mentors and networks. You will find out that the GREAT LEADERS don't last long here and leave which will give you a great network to follow outside of Oracle. You will learn allot here, more than any company. 
2. Everyone believes in the product(s)... wave a dollar above your head and you will have a stampede in support to help close deals. Sometimes it was just too much; a R-VP, R-Director, Account Rep, Database (Tech) Rep,,, and then one or two customers. Oracle BUS defined! The technology is great and is a real game-changer and you will be assisted in ever facet of the sale process. The support is unlimited! 
3. Company accessibility to clients shows... you will never have trouble reaching out to the customer or getting their attention. Oracle has a strong brand name and an intense sales engine. There are those who love and follow Oracle technology... but be prepared to have customers hate you just as much... because it's always kind to drop an audit on a customer once and a while so you can make your quota.
Cons: 1. Don't outsell or over-perform here... you will be slaughtered by your colleagues that are not. You will be marketed against and give additional territory responsibilities with little ROI to your effort. 
2. Management has their directive--grow the business mafia style. Machetes are clearly visible as a threat and are used... don't perform in two QTR's, you will be out. If you don't ensure balancing a long-term hiring strategy, you will be caught with the wave of firing you have to do. Hiring within your network is a serious decision... will you be there to over-see their growth? Will you have to be the person that fires them? You will also find that filling your positions with quality will have it's cost, as everyone knows how brutal Oracle is to their employees. 
3. Internally, Oracle's customer data and past purchases are absent!!! The business lines can't look into any other business lines. Poaching is heavily present, lack of purchase data for RIO figures, lack of customer license data, even booking order details are withheld. Everything is locked down and the sales rep is left to conduct zero insight to the their customers to actually help them... just get out there and sell them more!!!