Company: Oracle
Date: 2016-08-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Let's be real
Pros: The sales training is something to be rivaled. They invest in their employees to make sure they have the proper training and background to know what it takes to be able to work in sales.

The work/life balance is solid because the job doesn't require any thought outside of the office.
Cons: Where to begin... The environment is toxic. People are pitted against each other. People are so bonus-focused that people willingly steal opportunities to get ahead. The irony is Oracle doesn't adequately pay bonuses to its employees to begin with (cut by 50%) because the field doesn't perform.

Managers make it clear that you aren't valuable to the company. You are a number. Numbers are everything here and if you don't hit your number, you don't matter. That attitude trickles down because Oracle hires hundreds of new college graduates each year known as the "Class Ofs." To everyone not a Class Of, those college graduates will never be more than that. From many reps and the field, the Class Ofs are viewed as entitled and incompetent, as if they were somehow handed this job because they went to a certain university rather than going through an extensive interview process.

There is zero accountability from management. Everything gets shifted onto someone else, and as a result nothing gets resolved. I have never seen a company, and yes I realize its size, with so many internal issues. 

A day in the life of Corporate America, right? No, it's totally unacceptable.