Company: Oracle
Date: 2018-10-08
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Business Development (a mixed experience)
Pros: -Excellent pay
-Great growth opportunities for sales
-Lively atmosphere
-Brand recognition
-Responsive and level-headed management
Cons: -Little  opportunity for movement into non-sales roles
-Massive internal bureaucracy. Can easily feel lost and siloed.
-Huge entry-level cohorts means you can slip through the cracks in terms of development
-Need to have good relationship with sales counterparts to succeed. Can get unlucky with uncooperative sales colleagues.
-Assigned product set can clash with realities of your territory (in my case, I had to sell high-cost SaaS services to small-midsize companies)
-Artificial sense of competition discourages working with team