Company: Oracle
Date: 2012-04-14
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

It will age you at an accelerated rate
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.