Company: Oracle
Date: 2021-01-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Depression Mill
Pros: Oracle has world-class training programs for their salespeople, especially those who join fresh out of college.
Cons: Overworked and underpaid, the Oracle sales floors, once buzzing, are now barren wastelands. Management actively tells you NOT to learn about the product as a salesperson, so you don'tr realize how behind the competition our technologies are. Salespeople are forced to act on a detached management's half-baked ideas, both for sales plays and sales teams, effectively forcing the good talent out when they realize how backwards (or absent) the strategy is. In App sales, we were told to preach collaboration between departments, and how THAT is the key to successful business execution... 3 years later as a salesman, I still couldn't name anyone in Oracle's Marketing department. Bottom line, as an Oracle sales representative, you're forced to lie to the customer, produce results with a failing strategy, and give up any peace of mind/free time when your manager doesn't like your weekly results and makes you stay until 7:30 on a Friday to prove you want your job (without overtime of course!). Management at Oracle likes to push everyone until they're a burnt out, depressed, soggy little shell of the employee they originally hired. To all the college students looking at Class Of, do it, but dont stay more than 1 quarter after you get promoted. The abuse you take in 1 year here is more than anything you'll ever have to deal with at a healthy working environment.